Frederick Douglass Selected Works Collection: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom

In 1845, seven years after escaping to the North, he published Narrative, the first of three autobiographies. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an memoir and treatise on abolition written by African-American orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts. This book calmly but dramatically recounts the horrors and the accomplishments of his early years-the daily, casual brutality of the white masters; his painful efforts to educate himself; his...