The Autobiography of Fredrick Douglass is in a broad sense an overview of slavery and everything that comes with it along with the life of Fredrick Douglass himself. To be more specific, however, it is the story of a slave who loses his innocence and, so to speak, also his ignorance. A man learning the ways of the world through education: a painful but prosperous journey that ultimately led him to escape slavery and into a life of freedom. Throughout this novel, there were a few different critical points of climax. While I think many readers may have thought that the high point of the book was when Douglass escaped slavery and went to New York, I disagree. This was definitely a vital point in the story, but it was very vague