is one of America’s oldest literary traditions it’s a kind of political sermon and a literary form. It functioned as a lamentation and an optimistic statement of the America myth of its own mission. Blight said “Douglass’s burning contempt for “pious slaveholders” was not merely abolitionist propaganda, as it is too often portrayed. It was the fuel, the bitterly ironic energy of a spiritual autobiography.”#When reading Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass it is important to take in to account the time period in which it was written, who the author was and their background, and the purpose that the work was written for. Douglass was a slave and an abolitionist who wrote about his life for two reasons, to give the facts and to convince people that slavery was wrong. The way he wrote both parts are intertwined so that they compliment and support each other it exist as a work of abolitionist propaganda and as an historical source. ...
