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Frederick Douglass Rhetorical Analysis

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Frederick Douglass was a slave who wanted to learn how to read. His mistress wanted to teach him but her husband did not approve, so he had to find a different way to learn how to read. He gave the white children down the street bread and in return they would teach him to read. Frederick Douglass grew to not like reading because it reminded him that he would never be free. Douglass’s tone in his Autobiography is angry, this helped him achieve his purpose. His purpose was to share his feelings about slavery and about the knowledge he gained from the books he read. One of the examples he uses in his autobiography to show his anger is “You will be free as soon as you are twenty one, but i am a slave for life.” The reason his tone was angry
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