Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave notes (1st edition)

Written in MLA 7 (little brown handbook) In this argumentative essay, a comparison is made between the black and white community that are arguably each other's opposites. The essay will argue that the main theme in both Douglas' and Baldwin's book corresponds with an important commonality between black and white Americans, which is ignorance, used as a tool for dealing with their current situation and supported by the following motifs: education, religion and stereotypes.