During the period of his enslavement, did Frederick Douglass personify most slaves of his time?

I would say that, on the whole, Douglass's experiences
were not the same as those of the typical slave.  They were surely similar in many ways,
but there were important differences.

The major similarity
is that Douglass seems to have shared most of the hardships of slave life.  He describes
how there was not really enough to eat and he talks about how bad his clothes were and
things like that.  That is pretty typical.

However, there
are a few differences that I can think of right
off:

• He was the son of a white man, possibly the
  master.  This was not uncommon, but it's not like most slaves were sons of their
  master.  This would have set him apart from the other slaves to some
  extent.


• He did not really live and work on a plantation,
  at least not for his whole time as a slave.


• He (partly
  because of growing up in a city) learned to read and
  write.

Altogether, then, I would say that
Douglass probably had a somewhat easier life than the typical slave of his
time.