How is the style in which My Bondage and My Freedom is written related to Douglass's purpose?

In
My Bondage and My Freedom,revises his popular autobiography published ten
years prior in 1845. In his earlier edition, , Douglass writes in declarative
sentences that balance his trustworthy, credible account with his deceptively subtle
pathos.

My Bondage and My Freedom reconsiders the events
of Narrative from a new perspective, one further removed from both bondage
and brevity. The revisions include such considerable stylistic differences that multiple papers
defending and maligning them can be found in academic journals.

No longer
writing simply in a journalistic style with an authoritative tone, Douglass adopts in places a
grandiloquent voice and a formal style. Scenes from Narrative are retold more
dramatically, which is not to say they are embellished. They are reflective
and imbued with philosophical meaning that Douglass now prefers to explain to the reader. They
are often parables, a style reminiscent of...