r heritage and roots, it is no surprise that the quest for identity was a prevalent theme in the work of African American writers. For Frederick Douglass, establishing his identity on his own terms was crucial to both his career as an abolitionist writer and his own claim to freedom.
             In Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Douglass struggled hard to reclaim the right to define his identity and the echoes of this struggle persist today. With the power of his words and the truth of his own experience, Frederick Douglass dramatized the abomination of slavery and the struggle of a young man to break free (Mishkin 173). He put into the st
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