The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: The Memoir and Treatise on Abolition Written by a Former American Slave

ISBN-10: 1500528005
ISBN-13: 9781500528003
Series: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Pages: 140
Language: English
Published: 2014-07-15
Author: Frederick Douglass

Description

Born a slave, Frederick Douglass became a powerful speaker and a famous abolitionist, devoting his life to end slavery. In this autobiography, written in 1845, when he was twenty-seven, Douglass describes his early years on a plantation, his childhood living in slavery in a household in Baltimore, the final brutal years of his enslavement, during which he worked as a field hand and caulker, his harrowing escape to freedom, and life as a newspaper editor, eloquent orator, and impassioned abolitionist and the promising start to his life as a free man. This autobiography offered a firsthand account of the horrors of slavery from his own experiences.