How does Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself present the subjugation of Blacks...

Douglass shows an uncompromising view of slavery in order to communicate how whites subjugated people of color.

Douglass does not hesitate in his harsh depiction of the institution of slavery. When Douglass speaks about slavery, he presents white subjugation of Black people as criminal:

The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no other light than a band of successful robbers, who had...

Douglass shows an uncompromising view of slavery in order to communicate how whites subjugated people of color.

Douglass does not hesitate in his harsh depiction of the institution of slavery. When Douglass speaks about slavery, he presents white subjugation of Black people as criminal:

The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no other light than a band of successful robbers, who had left their homes, and gone to Africa, and stolen us from our homes, and in a strange land reduced us to slavery. I loathed them as being the meanest as well as the most wicked of men.

In using terms like "successful robbers," "stolen" and "meanest," Douglass passes swift judgment against whites who participated in slavery.  He presents the institution and those who perpetrated it as "wicked." 

When confronted with slavery, many people ask the question how it could happen.  How could human beings do that to one another?  Douglass suggests that slavery was like poison that caused people to embrace dehumanizing cruelty.  Douglass highlighted this with the case of Mrs. Auld:

The fatal poison of irresponsible power was already in her hands, and soon commenced its infernal work. That cheerful eye, under the influence of slavery, soon became red with rage; that voice, made all of sweet accord, changed to one of harsh and horrid discord; and that angelic face gave place to that of a demon. 

Mrs. Auld was caring towards Douglass.  She started his advancement education in teaching him how the alphabet. However, her husband rebuked her for this with ideas like ‘‘If you give a nigger an inch, he will take an ell.’  As a result, Douglass saw Mrs. Auld's "angelic face" transform into a "demon."  This is an example of how slavery changed whites by distorting their nature to embrace dehumanizing cruelty in their subjugation of people of color.