The narrator is Frederick Douglas. The dialect of the narrator is in the tone of an educated white man. Strange yet, not. If he talked in the dialect of an uneducated slave this would just be another Uncle Tom's Cabin. That is not the image Douglas wants to portray, slaves are completely equal if they are given the chance. He shows that with dialect. It's very matter of fact to him. Frederick Douglas would not be saying these things if they had not happened to him but, because they did he's there to tell the stories and examples off human cruelty.
In this book, I have enjoyed the quality shown in the writers voice and sentence structure, his tone fits his political issues. The writers style inflicts awe upon the readers. A man to have lived through the activities is a strong man indeed. A man to have lived through the painful times and then was to write about them is even stronger, he is awe inspiring. Reading those moments it is like pulling a band aid off a healing wound. It is painful but, necessary. The wound must air out to get better, and slavery changed and ended after people began to protest it, and fight it in public.
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