I chose to write about the lessons learned in “The Life of Fredrick Douglass”. This story was, raw history of what happened to a man throughout his lifetime. The lessons he learned by going through the things he did are things that stay with you forever. He starts the story off as a child. Right from the get go you can tell that even though he has very little, he is still grateful for what he has. One of the things that we as adults/ teenagers need to learn. In the beginning of the story he says that he doesn’t know how old he is but he has a really rough estimate, us being free and having the knowledge of these things is something that I think most Americans are privileged with. There are other things such as making decisions for ourselves, Fredrick Douglass didn’t get the choice of what he ate, what he wore where he slept. None of it, they were given 8 lbs. of pork or the equivalent of fish per month and a box of Corn meal. As for clothes they received one shirt, one jacket, one pair of pants, one undergarments, one pair of socks, one pair of shoes and one pair of winter trousers and that’s for the whole year. As for a bed or somewhere to sleep they got to sleep on the cold hard ground. Now knowing those things, will you look at your life the same? He learned other lessons like if you find a problem with something and in your mind it is morally wrong, then do something about it, vow to change it with all the will power in your body. "I often found myself regretting my own existence, and wishing myself dead; and but for the hope of being free, I have no doubt but that I should have killed myself, or done something for which I should have been killed" It is this line in the book that I think means the most and is the most powerful. Knowing full well his hatred for slavery and wanting to put a stop to it to be able to be free was his main goal. At this point in time Fredrick Douglass went from being a slave to being a hig