were printed up and passed out by northern abolitionist. It shows how facts were presented in a way to make the point that slavery should be ended. The way that Fredrick Douglass was made to look in both clothes and actions puts all the attention on the public grabbing idea of a dangerous slave eccape. Douglass himself put more of an infucne on his mental escape them his phyical. Pictures like this were used while Douglass was lecturing and to help sell his autobiography. They served to grab the attention of whites to shock them into action with words like “His Brothers in Bonds” and “A Graduate from the Peculiar Institution”. That is just an example of how as a speaker, writer and public figure Douglass functioned as a abolitionist.Douglass’s autobiography was part of a growing movement by blacks in America. When taken as a group slave narratives can be considered as a literary genre for several reasons. They were united by the common goal of pointing out the evils of slavery and fighting against the antebellum notion of black inferiority. In the narratives, there were striking similarity of language, simple and often dramatic accounts of personal events, strong revelation of the character of “ordinary” and “extraordinary” men and women, and other submerged elements of protest literature.# Northern whites often helped slaves and former slaves and the whites encouraged them to speak and writing about their experiences with slavery however the whites had their own agenda in mind. “The antislavery movement did not provide them a forum for their speaking and writing just so they could express themselves. Slave narratives were solicited and published to promote the great social aim of abolitionism, not the personal needs of the individual.”# David W. Blight offered another theory on the Narrative he, along with others, believed it to be a jeremiad. The jeremiad...
