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

by Frederick Douglass

Overview

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Frederick Douglass’s powerful autobiographical account of life in bondage, his triumphant escape to freedom, and his analysis of slavery as a condition.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780743487771
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication date:	11/01/2004
Series:	Enriched Classics
Edition description:	Enriched Classic
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	758,980
Product dimensions:	4.19(w) x 6.75(h) x 0.60(d)
Lexile:	550L (what's this?)
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

About the Author

Frederick Douglass was born into a family of slavery in early America. Douglass attributes his road to freedom as beginning with his being sent from the Maryland plantation of his birth to live in Baltimore as a young boy. There, he learned to read and, more importantly, learned the power of literacy. In early adolescence, he was returned to farm work, suffered abuse at the hands of cruel overseers, and witnessed abuse visited on fellow slaves. He shared his knowledge of reading with a secret "Sunday school" of 40 fellow slaves during his last years of bondage. In his early 20's, he ran away to the North and found refuge among New England abolitionists.

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