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  • Published: 25 February 2015
  • ISBN: 9781598533514
  • Imprint: Library of America
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $16.99
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

A Library of America Paperback Classic




One of the greatest works of American autobiography, in a definitive Library of America text

One of the greatest works of American autobiography, in a definitive Library of America text: Published seven years after his escape from slavery, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) is a powerful account of the cruelty and oppression of the Maryland plantation culture into which Frederick Douglass was born. It brought him to the forefront of the antislavery movement and drew thousands, black and white, to the cause. Written in part as a response to skeptics who refused to believe that so articulate an orator could ever have been a slave, the Narrative reveals the eloquence and fierce intelligence that made Douglass a brilliantly effective spokesman for abolition and equal rights, as he shapes an inspiring vision of self-realization in the face of unimaginable odds.

  • Published: 25 February 2015
  • ISBN: 9781598533514
  • Imprint: Library of America
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $16.99
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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