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 …showed first 75 words of 543 total…

…showed last 75 words of 543 total…talked to them of our want of manhood, if we submitted to our enslavement without at least on noble effort to be free” (Douglas 50). Douglas was an inspiration to the black race. He had goals and nothing was ever going to get in his way. Especially, the cruel treatments of his masters, it only made him wiser and more determined to be free. Douglass finally found his identity he was someone to be proud of.