Frederick Douglass EssayFrederick Douglass was an African-American slave reformer; he was also a writer and believed that everyone should be free. Douglass once said, “I would join with anyone to do good, and with no one to do evil.” He was willing to do anything to do the right thing. In his account he talks about the evils of slavery and many strategies to keep it alive, as well as the tactics used to keep slaves ignorant. In 1818 Douglass was born into slavery on a Maryland plantation in Talbot County to his mother Harriet Bailey. ; although he didn't truly know his mother until he was older, she died when he was younger. He didn't know his mother because slave owners separated them from their mothers to destroy that mother-son bond; it was a tactic used to ensure that slaves were considered tools instead of people. She never knew who her father was but suspected he was one of the plantation owners. Most plantation owners managed to get by with slave women. It may have been a way to keep the slave population high and profits were made by selling the slaves because mixed slaves became slaves due to the law. Douglass was raised by his grandmother Betty Bailey. While still young he was selected to work in the plantation house. Douglass was given to his master's wife. After his master's death he was sent to Baltimore to serve the brother-in-law of his master's wife, Hugh Auld. Douglass' early childhood seemed to be harsh because he witnessed a lot of abuse and suffered from it as well. He remembers witnessing his grandmother's brutal whipping, but remembers that the real pain was that he could do nothing to stop it. He uses many scenes like this to provide examples of the inhumanity of... middle of the card... will be our tool. Frederick Douglass portrayed the life of a plantation slave and also the life of a slave owned in the city and gave an insight into the daily life of slaves at the time. He opens the eyes of many people by telling his story and revealing the inhumane treatment of slaves and how they are people too. Douglass helped lay the foundation for the pursuit of freedom with his pursuit of knowledge and how he overthrew the tactics of slavery. He realized that knowledge was the key to freedom.GreatestAudioBooks, . NP Network. Douglass, Federico. An Account of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave. Boston: Anti-Slavery Bureau, 1845.Fort, Bruce. American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology. AS Hypertext at UVA, March 6 1998. .