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  • Published: 7 June 2005
  • ISBN: 9780451529947
  • Imprint: Signet
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $12.99
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass




One of the most important documents in American history, and the most famous account of slavery in the world.

Frederick Douglass's dramatic autobiographical account of his early life as a slave in America.

Born into a life of bondage, Frederick Douglass secretly taught himself to read and write. It was a crime punishable by death, but it resulted in one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. His gripping narrative takes us into the fields, cabins, and manors of pre–Civil War plantations in the South and reveals the daily terrors he suffered.
 
Written more than a century and a half ago by a Black man who went on to become a famous orator, U.S. minister to Haiti, and leader of his people, this timeless classic still speaks directly to our age. It is a record of savagery and inhumanity that goes far to explain why America still suffers from the great injustices of the past.
 
With an Introduction by Peter J. Gomes
and an Afterword by Gregory Stephens

  • Published: 7 June 2005
  • ISBN: 9780451529947
  • Imprint: Signet
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $12.99
Categories:

About the author

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

FREDERICK DOUGLASS was one of the foremost leaders
of the abolitionist movement, which fought to end slavery
within the United States in the decades prior to the Civil
War. When the American Anti-Slavery Society engaged him
on a tour of lectures, he became one of America's first great
black speakers. He won world fame with his first
autobiography, NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF
FREDERICK DOUGLAS (1845). Two years later he began
publishing an antislavery paper called the North Star.
Douglass served as an adviser to President Lincoln during
the Civil War and fought for the adoption of constitutional
amendments that guaranteed voting rights and other civil
liberties for blacks. He is still revered today for his fight
against racial injustice.

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Praise for Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

"He is my friend." --Abraham Lincoln

"He experienced...the tyranny and circumscription of an ambitious human being who was classified as real estate."--W.E.B. DuBois

"This narrative contains many affecting incidents, many passages of great eloquence and power...Who can read [it], and be insensible to its pathos and sublimity?" --William Lloyd Garrison

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