What parallels, or similarities, do you see between the books Douglass reads and his own life? Cite textual evidence from the excerpt to support the similarities you find. (Frederick Douglass who had been a slave when he became a free man became a abolitionist and a writer as well as an orator. He learned to read at a young age(12) He would read whatever he can find books, newspapers, Anything! He had owned a private library at home cause all the readable things he had he would put in his library for other people to possibly read like slaves.)