the reading of fredrick douglass

The purpose of the two letters is to tell you about the author. the preface is by douglass' friend whom he met at a anti-slavery convention. he wrote of douglass' amazing speech that made him hate slavery more than ever before and that he would make a great edition to their movement against slavery. the second if by Wendall Phillips, the beginning was weird because he starts with the fable of "the man and the lion" but ended well by stating how much of a great speaker and an inspiring person.

My reaction to the first chapter is surprisingly  better than i anticipated it to be. i thought this was going to be of a man just complaining about his hardships. but it goes deeper than that, he explains these hardships on a more personal level instead of implicit whining. when he write of his mother it almost seems like i can feel his longing to see his mother again and his affectionate attachment to her. he would only see her a few times when she would sneak out to go see him but then disappear again to her own slave owner. i did not want to put this down when i started reading it but i only went to page twelve for homework.

while i loved reading the first chapter, i didn't like the preface because it seemed to repeat itself. it would talk about his amazing speech then how great he would be for their movement about slavery, but that was it. it just said the same thing over and over. i do not think it takes that much writing just to say he makes great speeches and is an inspiration.