Frederick Douglass wrote his autobiography "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" mainly to provide a first-hand account of the horrors of slavery and thereby support the abolitionist movement. The main purpose of the book was to persuade readers that slavery should be abolished and to achieve his purpose, he described the physical realities that slaves endured and his responses to his life as a slave. He wanted to prove his identity, and bring his eloquent indictment of slavery to a wider audience. In the book he also humanizes slaves and demonstrates the corrupting effect slavery has on slaveholders. At the time Douglass was writing, many people believed that slavery was a natural state of being.
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