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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 ethnic & national memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass. While often categorized in the genre of biographies & memoirs, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is generally held to be the most famous of a number of African American & Black narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass describes the historical events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential of ethnic & national biographies & memoirs to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th century in the Historical United States. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass encompasses eleven chapters that vividly recapture Frederick Douglass's life as a slave and his ambition to become a free man.