There Was Once a Slave

With a new foreword by Amber O’Neal Johnston, author and established authority on infusing diverse voices in traditional curricula.

This is the story of one of the noblest men in American history-a man who escaped from slavery to become one of the great leaders of his century-a friend to Lincoln and other great statesmen of his generation.

Thirty years before the Civil War Frederick Douglass was a slave-his lot, hard labor in the cotton fields, frequent lashings, a starvation …