What details about the life and writings of Frederick Douglass, and about his character, would help your reading of the poem named for him?...

Douglass,
himself, is an extremely complex and divergent thinker.  I think that one of the critical
details about Douglass would have to be his experience as a slave.  In his Narrative, one of the
overriding themes would be how slavery and the existence of it seems to pose direct and
authoritative challenges to the...