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In, “My Bondage and My Freedom”, Fredrick Douglas takes you back into his life long enough for you to gather the pieces of the puzzle that unveils the missing pieces of his future. He demonstrated that knowledge is not power in itself, but what you do with the knowledge is the power. Over a period of time, he found out that even when life continues forward sometimes you can still be imprisoned to the past without the knowledge of how to be free. “The time is but a speck, yet large enough to justify a pause for retrospection—and a pause it must only be.” (69) His quote brought such a power to the fact that even though, his life was hard and he caught himself staying in the past, when he realized that he already obtained a part of his future, it made the rode to freedom more accessible. Fredrick Douglass was constantly up-rooted in his childhood, which later in life engraved a slave mentality, but once the seeds of knowledge were planted, he was never the same. Douglass slave mentality had been branded in him all his life. When a mind and life have been the same way for so long, the idea of a new concept seems almost impossible. Being raised by his grandmother for approximately the first five years of his life gave Fre