By: Anonymous The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass details the life of Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, from his birth in Talbot County, Maryland to his speech (as a free man) during an anti-slavery convention in Nantucket, on August 11, 1841. The Narrative was written between 1844 and 1845 in Lynn, Massachusetts. It was published in May of 1845 and revealed his full identity. This was dangerous, because Frederick was not yet a free man. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass serves as both historical truth and imaginative literature. It is a story of both slavery and freedom. It is a "classic illustration of the will to power as the will to write, of phys