... 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 ... and write, which was taboo amongst enslaved blacks of that era. He claims that that single act was one of the biggest reasons that he eventually gained his freedom. Through reading, he learned that the fight for freed...

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