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This book is absolutely an abolitionist tract, especially because it seeks to reveal many facts about slavery that could only be expressed by someone who lived within the system. By revealing the gross inequities and violence of the system and then showing his readers that slaves were like him and possessed the power to do and think great things and were, above all human, Douglass offers up a range of emotions. He inspires fear, pity, and disgust with the system and shows how unfair the practice is on a number of levels. His stories about others in the text serve to highlight his points about the system and for these reasons I think that if I were alive during the 1840s there could be no better way to bring me to the abolitionist cause than to be exposed to this text. He successfully illustrates through example any number of events on plantations (and even in the North) that showed how hypocritical white American institutions were and also showed how the change would be slow but possible. One of the greatest questions he leaves unanswered, however, is where to go from the point where he leaves off his narrative. Even though the reader gets the feeling that there is hope around the corner, he does not offer a host of suggestions but merely seems to think that by showing the problems with the system people will work to change it. On the other hand, perhaps it was not up to Douglass to offer us

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