Frederick Douglass’ focal point is depression and elation through detail in his horrid life of slavery to being blessed. For example, he shows his true depressed self as he reminds himself that he is “without home and without friends” as well as how he fell “into the hands of kidnappers” remaining “toil-worn and whip scarred”. Douglass is born into slavery in Maryland where at a young age was shown the tortures of slavery and tortured until the age of 20. He becomes depressed, caused by the extensive and excruciating work, giving him no civil liberties and no civil rights, not even counted as a person. When Douglass is freed and “leaves his chains on September, 1838” and is left at the “highest point of excitement” while being in the “free
