Starting with Frederick Douglass's narrative of his life in slavery and in freedom, write an essay addressing some of the following questions: What did it mean to Douglass to be slave? How did he define slavery? How did his definition differ from that of most Southerners? Northerners? How did slave-owners perpetuate the institution of slavery? What effects did slavery have on Southern society? How does Douglass's narrative give us insight into the differences between North and South that led to the Civil War?