Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass
An American Slave
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- Mass Market Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
7 June 2005
Summary
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 as a slave. Written more than a century…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780451529947 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0451529944 |
| Author: | Frederick Douglass |
| Publisher: | Signet Book |
| Imprint: | Signet Classics |
| Format: | Mass Market Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 7 June 2005 |
| Weight: | 80g |
| Dimensions: | 172mm x 105mm |
| Series: | Signet Classics (Hardcover) |
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“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 “He experienced…the tyranny and circumscription of an ambitious human being who was classified as real estate.”–W.E.B. DuBois
About The Author
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was born a slave and escaped to freedom in his twenties. “My Bondage and My Freedom” (1855) was written after he had established himself as a newspaper editor. In this book, Douglass expands upon his previous accounts of his years as a slave. With great psychological penetration, he probes the long-term and corrosive effects of slavery and comments upon his active resistance to the segregation he encounters in the North.
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