Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th century in the United States.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th century in the United States.

Frederick Douglass' first autobiography, originally published in 1845, offers a harrowing first-hand account of living as a slave and a treatise on abolition. As a child, Douglas realizes that slave owners used illiteracy as a way to control their slaves and so teaches himself to read and learn everything he can. When he discovers the word "abolition" and its meaning, it plants the seed of the idea to someday run away to the North -- a dream he later achieves. By 1860, the book had sold ov...

The pathbreaking autobiography of America’s most influential abolitionist and former slave, now with an introduction from Pulitzer Prize–winning Douglass biographer David W. BlightFrederick Douglass was born into slavery in 1818 on a farm on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. He lived in bondage for two decades, experiencing nearly every brutal treatment, physical and psychological, that a young slave could face—but he also learned to read, a key that would unlock his freed...

A dramatic autobiography and powerful firsthand account of slavery, written by America's most influential abolitionistFirst published in 1845, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an eye-opening depiction of American slavery. Part autobiography, part human-rights treatise, it describes the everyday horrors inflicted on captive laborers, as well as the strength and courage needed to survive.Born into slavery on a Maryland plantatio...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th century in the United States.

A new collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leaderThis compact volume offers a full course on the remarkable, diverse career of Frederick Douglass, letting us hear once more a necessary historical figure whose guiding voice is needed now as urgently as ever. Edited by renowned scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Pulitzer Prize–nominated historian John Stauffer, The Portable Frederick Douglass includ...

This meticulously edited collection has been formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Memoirs: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave My Bondage and My Freedom Life and Times of Frederick Douglass Writings & Speeches: The Heroic Slave My Escape from Slavery What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? Self-Made Men The Church and Prejudice The Color Line The Future of the Colored Race Abolition Fanaticism in New York An Appeal to Cong...

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.Born into slavery during the early nineteenth century, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom before he was twenty-one years old. From the moment he arrived in New York City, he felt a need to tell his story, one that mirrored so many people still enslaved in the South with no hope of escape.As an orator and prea...

What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July, is one of Frederick Douglass' classics.

The abolitionist author presents profound insight on the meaning of race and freedom in America in this memoir of slavery, escape, and reinvention.One of the most important figures in the American civil rights movement, Frederick Douglass was a major influence on social and political thought in the nineteenth century. His autobiographical writings were a powerful vehicle for his philosophy of human equality.Written ten years after his legal emancipation in ...

"...A LIFETIME OF STRUGGLE AND PROGRESS AND ENLIGHTENMENT...ETCHED IN FREDERICK DOUGLASS' MIGHTY LEONINE GAZE." - PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA. Speech at the Museum of African American History and Culture, September 24, 2016DRAMATIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN AMERICAN SLAVE includes "Frederick Douglass BICENTENNIAL COMMISSION ACT"This classic of American literature, a dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave, was first published in 1845, when its au...