Which work is an autobiographical account describing Frederick Douglass's life as a slave?

• A. Uncle Tom's Cabin
• B. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
• C. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• D. The Crisis

Answer: (B)

The main idea here is recognizing a firsthand memoir that recounts the author’s own experiences as an enslaved person. The best choice is a narrative that Douglass wrote himself, detailing his life in bondage, his struggle to learn to read, the brutal treatment he endured, and his eventual escape and rise as an abolitionist voice. This work is specifically designed to share one person’s lived experience under slavery, making it a direct autobiographical account.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a fictional novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that portrays slavery through characters and events, not Douglass’s personal life. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is about another historical figure entirely. The Crisis is an abolitionist periodical edited by Douglass that argues against slavery and promotes emancipation, but it is not his memoir recounting his enslaved years.