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Douglass’s second autobiography expands the narrative and gives more space to his intellectual and political development. Reading it after the Narrative reveals how an author revises and enlarges his own life story as his historical position changes
Douglass’s first autobiography documents enslavement, literacy, resistance and escape in a tightly structured first-person narrative. Its power comes from the specificity of lived experience as well as the argument it makes about slavery, literacy and human freedom
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