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             Douglass coping with slavery. Frederick Douglass also had a reason to
             write these works. As a die-hard abolitionist, Douglass wanted to show the
             world how bad slavery really was. He did this very well, because he made
             many people understand the unknown, and made abolitionists out of many
             people. This man had a cause, as well as a story to tell. Douglass, as a
             former slave, single-handedly redefined American Civil War literature,
             simply by redefining how antislavery writings were viewed. There were
             other narratives written by former slaves, but none could live up to the
             educated, realistic accounts of slavery by Frederick Douglass.
             Frederick Douglass is well know
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