Although it was perceived that all slaves were treated well, it suggested that they were content to be slaves and that all slaves were uneducated. While Douglas's own autobiography is still living proof of what really happened, those 300 years when African Americans were enslaved, beaten and separated from their families. Furthermore, Douglass confirms in his autobiography on real accounts the truth behind all these lies shown in the film, titled Gone with the Wind. Douglas' autobiography also suggests that slavery existed in the North and the South was for the most part slightly different. Suggesting that, the South required a lot of agricultural labor and the North didn't, for the most part didn't. Douglass didn't pick cotton even as a child because he was a house slave in the South and cotton doesn't grow in the North. Douglas' escape is something that was evident throughout the autobiography that he wanted from a young age. Although slavery was a long process that spanned the lives of many African Americans, in which many lives were taken, families were separated, and many died without education; abolitionists like Fredrick Douglass changed the path for slaves by becoming educated and helping write the Emancipation Proclamation in