The main purpose of this paper is to show the reader the most important points in Douglass' journey to freedom. How a slave became a human being? To prove to the reader the realizations that Douglas encountered during his slave years.
             The beginning of Douglass' realizations about slavery was his departure from Colonel Lloyd's plantation. " Going to live in Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all, my subsequent prosperity. I have ever regarded it as the first plain manifestation of that kind providence which has ever attended me, and marked my life with so many favors" (Douglas18). He never lost site of the horrible happenings of slavery but in this situation he became anxious to find out what is going to happen next. He was chosen out of the many slaves.
             Douglas makes another realization once he makes his way to Baltimore he believes that being a city slave is like being a freeman. " A city slave is almost a freeman, compared with a slave on the plantation. He is much better fed and clothed, and enjoys privileges altogether unknown to the slave on the plantation" (Douglas 21). His mistress helped Douglas learn how to read and by doing that he was one step closer to freedom. Having that privilege did not last very long once Mr. Auld found out about it. " If you give a nigger an inch, he will take an ell. A nigger should know nothing but to obey his master to do as he is told to do. Learning would spoil the best nigger in the world" (Douglas 20). After hearing
             Mr. Auld say all of those terrible things, Douglas had more determination than ever to learn how to read.
             The most important realization that Douglas made was his battle with
             Mr. Covey. It led him towards his goal to freedom. This is where he got the motivation to overcome all of his fears. "This battle with Mr. Covey was the turning point in my career as a slave. It rekindled
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