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…as composed, sensitive, and gentle human beings, yet Douglass shows his readers that the opposite was true. Douglass uses the literary device of contrasting to portray black and white women in his narrative by placing them at the two opposite ends of a slavery hierarchy. I believe he did this to create emotional astonishment for his readers, as well as to clarify the misunderstanding of the situation of females, both black and white, in slavery.