Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself

by Frederick Douglass

Overview

Frederick Douglass was born into slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in Maryland. As a young boy he was sent to Baltimore, to be a house servant, where he learned to read and write, with the assistance of his master's wife. In 1838 he escaped from slavery and went to New York City, where he married Anna Murray, a free colored woman whom he had met in Baltimore. Soon thereafter he changed his name to Frederick Douglass. In 1841 he addressed a convention of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in Nantucket and so greatly impressed the group that they immediately employed him as an agent. He was such an impressive orator that numerous persons doubted if he had ever been a slave, and he wrote this classic book about his life story.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781599868714
Publisher:	Filiquarian Publishing
Publication date:	04/12/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Robert B. Stepto is Professor of English, African American Studies, and American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of From Behind the Veil: A Study of Afro-American Narrative.

Hometown:

Tuckahoe, Maryland

Date of Birth:

1818

Date of Death:

February 20, 1895

Place of Death:

Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

• Introduction: Frederick Douglass Writes His Story by Robert B. Stepto
• Note on the Text
• Chronology of Frederick Douglass’s Life
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
  • Preface by William Lloyd Garrison (May 1, 1845)
  • Letter from Wendell Phillips, Esq. (April 22, 1845)
  • Chapters 1–11
  • Appendix (April 28, 1845)
  
  
  
  
• Selected Bibliography