1. One of the major points of discussion in the audio program for this unit concerns Frederick Douglass's representativeness. Obviously, in some respects he was a very unusual man; yet he did not want his white readers to think that he was a special case if, in the process, they came to the conclusion that he was vastly superior to other black people enslaved in the South. How does he picture himself as typical as well as highly individual. Frederick Douglass was not a typical slave in the South in the times of slavery because he chose to fight for his freedom and not to accept his fate, altho...

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