The Narrative of Frederick Douglass and Its Effects on the Abolitionists Frederick Douglass' The Narrative of Frederick Douglass was targeted toward the Northern Abolitionists. Being categorized as both a slave narrative and a novel full of emotional circumstances, Frederick Douglass succeeds in overwhelming the reader with sympathy and compassion for both himself and his fellow "brethren" (64). Frederick Douglass utilizes family relationships in order to enable the reader to experience the very definition of empathy; starting …showed first 75 words of 1132 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1132 total…value than farm animals were all issues used to persuade the northern white audience toward the cause of abolition. Douglass hoped for the support of his readers to share his "hate [for] the corrupt, slave holding, woman-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of [the southern slave holders]." (71) Obviously this wretched slavery does not exist in today's society, so it would be safe to say that Douglass' ideas most certainly contributed to the cause of abolition.