Because The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is an example of a roman à clef, the reader can logically infer that
the author may have copied the story from a historical manuscript and should have provided source information
the narrator cannot be trusted to be honest, and should be categorized as an unreliable narrator
the author may have had actual experiences with issues of race or known someone similar to the narrator who had
the narrator is actually Johnson, and it is a word-for-word autobiography that he wanted to keep secret

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ”go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival.what is one way that douglass achieves his purpose of persuading the reader to see his point of view? by relating as many facts and statistics to the reader as possibleby using familiar and casual language to make the reader feel comfortableby using gentle language to evoke a sense of calm and tranquilityby repeating the word “you” to directly relate to the reader