The first twenty or so years of ones life are usually
spent in a classroom, from grade school all the way to college. Education and
knowledge liberates a person from dependency on someone else to make decisions
for them. An educated person holds the power to make their own decisions as
well as handle issues concerning their best interest as a human being. Fredrick
Douglass, author of the “Narrative in the Life of Fredrick Douglass, An
American Slave” struggles to free himself from the bonds of slavery through
acquiring the knowledge to read and write. Fredrick knows that education is the
path to freedom and through this narrative he aims to educate Northern whites
in hopes of freeing them from there enslaved minds that slavery is acceptable.
