Slavery did not function as many people now think it did. It was not as large-scale as it is imagined to be and was very systematic. Our textbook tells a lot about how it worked, but it did not tell us of the brutality and harsh reality that went along with the system. Douglas, though, did reveal this to us. From his experience and the textbook, we learn of slavery’s effects and of the …showed first 75 words of 646 total…

…showed last 75 words of 646 total…reaching freedom from the city. The textbook showed the economical and social surface skin of slavery, but Frederick Douglas open up the ugly insides of it for us. He was much more descriptive and his examples were meaningful. He did not get into the systematics of slavery as much as the textbook. Both the textbook and his narrative helped clarify the situation of city and plantation slaves and display the effects of this horrible practice.