Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave /

"An updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materials. The preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass's Narrative powerfully details the life of the abolitionist from his birth into slavery to his escape to th...

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Main Authors: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 (Author)
Published: Penguin Classics,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: [2014]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Penguin classics.
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Summary: "An updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materials. The preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass's Narrative powerfully details the life of the abolitionist from his birth into slavery to his escape to the North in 1838. Douglass tells how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and drivers, how he learned to read and write, and how he grew into a man who could only live free or die. In addition to Douglass's classic autobiography, this new edition also includes his most famous speech "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" in its entirety as well as his only known work of fiction, The Heroic Slave, an account of slave rebellion, which was published within a year of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin"--
Carrier Form: 190 pages ; 20 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9780143107309 (paperback)
0143107305 (paperback)
Index Number: E449
CLC: K837.127
Call Number: K837.127/D737-1