Frederick Douglas: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave Written by Himself What are the aims of the narrative?

Douglass
also portrays slavery as emasculating. There is a very famous line near the end of the book,
when he says, "You have seen how a man becomes a slave. You shall see how a slave became a
man." He meant that slaves could regain their humanity through resistance to slavery, a
very powerful statement during his own time.