TY - BOOK AU - Nzeyimana,Christophe AU - Nformi,Nganyu Dominic ED - University of Burundi TI - Up from slavery, chains unbound : a study of the narrative of the life of Frederick Douglas, an american slave PY - 2010/// CY - Bujumbura PB - University of Burundi, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of English Language and Literature KW - KW - BI-BuBU KW - Douglas (Frederick). "Up from slavery, chains unbound : a study of the narrative of the life of Frederick Douglas, an american slave". Douglas Frederick (thème) KW - Mémoire N2 - Résumé, This work sets out to examine the horrible and inhuman tretment inflected on black slaves during the period of slavery as seen in Frederick Douglass's The narrative of the Life of Frederic Douglass, an American slave. It equally examines the various justifications given by the slaveholders for the enslavement of blacks. It is an examination of the atrocities and abhorrent treatment of slaves in American plantations . In the view of all this, this work operated on the premise that oppression has as natural consequence resistance and always results in freedom. ER -