Topic: Frederick Douglass, From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Question: What is the most important political issue raised in the essay? Douglass never talks about the law, but he implies a great deal about justice and morality. How do justice and morality intersect in Douglass’s story of his life as a slave? How aware does he seem to have been that he was being dealt with in an unethical fashion?