![]() The experience was so bad, he had wished that he was’t alive any longer, or rather just didn’t even exist. The above quote, from Life of Frederick Douglass and My Bondage, is Frederick Douglass talking about he is feeling as a result of the hardship he is going through with being a slave. “I often found myself regretting my own existence, and wishing myself dead and but for the hope of being free, I have no doubt but that I should have killed myself, or done something for which I should have been killed.” (Douglass Ch. Although both texts are discussing the same events, they are described differently in each text by Frederick Douglass. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass was written in 1845, compared to that of My Bondage and My Freedom, which was written 10 years later in 1855. ![]() In both The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and My Bondage and My Freedom, both texts discuss the same events. ![]()
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