Answer:
"D. This point of' view shares the inner and outer struggles of an enslaved man with readers.
Explanation:
First-person narrative has the potential to deepen the reader's knowledge of the narrator-character, as it shows much about his personality through the way he chooses to narrate the plot's events, and how he describes his feelings, emotions, and his internal and external struggles. His speech gains a status of authenticity, since there is no anonymous narrator mediating the reader's contact with the character, as in the narrative in the third person. The focus of first-person narrative is to influence the reader to interpret the story from the point of view of this character.
On the basis of this, the first-person narration in Douglass's autobiography was intended to share the inner and outer struggles of a man enslaved, so readers would know their deep feelings about this struggle and could identify and be moved in a way more intimate with the story.
Frederick Douglass made himself the most persuasive victim of the evils of slavery and prejudice. He suffered when his master separated his family and had to endure lashes and beatings. Although it was illegal to teach slaves to read and write, Douglass still learned and secretly taught other slaves. After escaping, he began to relentlessly participate in abolitionist gatherings throughout the North and the British Isles for more than two decades. When it became clear that the Civil War was only a bloody milestone in the struggle, he spearheaded protests against prejudice in the North and against states in the South that subverted the newly conquered civil liberties of blacks.
