Which excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass best reveals Douglass’s purpose to inform readers about the terrible conditions which he endured? Thus, after a long, tedious effort for years, I finally succeeded in learning how to write.
Thanks to a kind Providence, I fell to the portion of Mrs. Lucretia, and was sent immediately back to Baltimore, to live again in the family of Master Hugh.
I took passage with Captain Rowe, in the schooner Wild Cat, and, after a sail of about twenty-four hours, I found myself near the place of my birth.
I was immediately sent for, to be valued with the other property. Here again my feelings rose up in detestation of slavery.