Frederick Douglass was an orator and writer in the abolitionist movement. He was born into slavery and knows from personal experience how the institution dehumanizes everyone involved. His masters' wife taught him the alphabet, which allowed Douglass to learn to write and speak out against slavery. His Account of the Life of Fredrick Douglass was an attempt to describe the peculiar institution of slavery without disturbing the sensibilities of his readers. To achieve this, Douglass must get his audience to identify with and empathize with his life as a slave. It incorporated the same exploitation techniques used in the sentimental novel. It was an 18th-century style of European novel that mobilized readers' emotions in order to gain supporters for a particular cause. Frederick Douglass's account of the life of Frederick Douglass appealed to his readers' sensibilities by evoking emotions of sympathy and compassion, which caused his readers to identify with slavery and refer to it as abnormal. Throughout the novel, Fredrick Douglass describes the horrific actions that maintain the institution. of slavery. Separating a child from its mother means that it was never raised properly. He never knew his mother and did not build that loving bond that every human child needs to grow up emotionally healthy. Never having appreciated, to any considerable extent, her calming presence, her tender and watchful care, I received the news of [my mother's] death with much the same emotions that I probably should have felt at the death of a stranger. (Douglass 2) ...... middle of paper ...... family structure. The acquired slave system required slave masters to impose physiological and psychological maintenance to control slaves. One way to maintain social order was to deprive slaves of their right to know who they were and where they came from. Ultimately preventing slaves from gaining a sense of personal fulfillment or pursuit of happiness. Slavery as an institution broke all family ties, caused extreme suffering, and emphasized fundamental inhumanity. Slavery had an emotional impact on everyone involved, and its abolition benefited all of American society..