Frederick was once so tired from consistently working he collapsed, and his owner at the time, Mr. Covey started beating and whipping him, because of it. The narrative also reveals psychological struggles such that the difficult lives of slaves and mistreating, led to lack in faith and their religion. Witnessing constant beating, being put through brutal work conditions, and witnessing deaths and beatings of loved ones in front of your eyes. Eventually it will cause a void in between them and their religion or sense …show more content…
He describes most of his owners in a unkind way due to the acts and violence they committed in his lifetime. He gives us a sense of what the owners were truly like and even how some differed than others. Like this one lady owner he lived with, never owned a slave before but fell into the rise in slavery, and purchased them. This is the strategy of persuading us as readers to feel sorrow and guilt for what is being done, and to encourage us to. This work had huge effects in the abolition movement and the fight to end slavery. The principle that all humans have equal rights regardless of their nation, location, language, religion, ethnic origin; is value in which makes this book relevant today. The actions portrayed in Douglass Narrative do not abide by these laws and rights of human beings in this world as well as current day issues. The meaning of the full title of the narrative is a written account of connected events during Frederick Douglass life, in this case illustrating the period of slavery in the United States first