Frederick Douglass

I have asked you to read the first several pages of "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" and My Bondage and My Freedom. "Narrative," as you may have expected, is prefaced by two authenticating letters by white abolitionists. In the one letter, William Lloyd Garrison describes Douglass at his first abolitionist meeting when he got up a spoke to the group. Douglass himself describes his experience in the excerpt from My Bondage and My Freedom that I gave you to read. Do Douglas and Garrison both tell the same story? Do their details differ? What are some of the differences in their accounts and how are those differences significant? (You must post a response before class meets on Tuesday, September 11.)