Autobiographies
- ISBN-10
- 0940450798
- ISBN-13
- 9780940450790
- Series
- Autobiographies
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 1126
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Publisher
- Library of America
- Author
- Frederick Douglass
Description
A new one-volume edition of an American classic offers the complete memoirs of the eloquent escaped slave, who in the nineteenth century shaped the abolitionist movement and became the most influential African-American of his era.
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- 2010-06-15
- 560 pages
- Paperback
- Simon and Schuster
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