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An autobiography recounts the life of an individual who has played an important role in the world. The individual, or, character must be a relevant and influential figure in society to have a successful autobiography. Frederick Douglass was an extremely intelli ....

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.... sympathy for the slaves. Douglass felt that the autobiography was descriptive; however, no reader could actually feel exactly what a slave felt, and sympathize completely with a slave. "... I say, let him be placed in this most trying situation, -the situation in which I was placed, -then, and not till then, will he fully appreciate the hardships of, and know how to sympathize with, the toil-worn and whip-scarred fugitive slave." (70) Douglass felt that no one would ever know what slavery was like unless he or she had been a part of it. As a slave, Douglass was not given many opportunities; although, through intellectual and physical struggles, Dou ....