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Book: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Author: Frederick Douglass, 1817?–95 First published: 1845 The original book is in the public domain in the United States and in most, if not all, other countries as well. Readers outside the United States should check their own countries’
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by African-American orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts. [1] It is the first of Douglass's three autobiographies, the others being My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) and Life and Times of ...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass, published in 1845, is a memoir and discourse on slavery and abolition that offers Douglass’s powerful account of his journey from slavery to freedom. Born into bondage, Douglass recounts the brutality of his early life on a Maryland plantation and his determination to educate ...
Book Summary. Douglass' Narrative begins with the few facts he knows about his birth and parentage; his father is a slave owner and his mother is a slave named Harriet Bailey. Here and throughout the autobiography, Douglass highlights the common practice of white slave owners raping slave women, both to satisfy their sexual hungers and to ...
Oct 27, 2009 · Douglass’ 1845 autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, described his time as an enslaved worker in Maryland. It was one of three...
Auld is a mean man made harsher by his false religious piety. Auld considers Douglass unmanageable, so Auld rents him for one year to Edward Covey, a man known for “breaking” enslaved people. Covey manages, in the first six months, to work and whip all the spirit out of Douglass.
Jan 12, 2006 · Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Douglass. Read now or download (free!) Readers also downloaded… In African American Writers. In Slavery. About this eBook. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
