Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass managed to escape and as a free man he became an activist for abolition and a spokesperson for the enslaved African Americans.
"My bondage and my freedom" is the recollection of Douglass' lifetime and a fierce literacy piece to condemn a system that dehumanizes people. One of the main reasons Douglass wrote his autobiography "My bondage and my freedom" was to depict how black people were as humans and as capable as the white men and women. He utilized his life story to show the audience how insensitive and irrational slavery was and to use his book as tool to call for abolition.