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NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS
By: Frederick Douglass
An American Slave: Written by Himself
Yale University Press
March 2001
On Sale: March 1, 2001
192 pages
ISBN: 0300087012
EAN: 9780300087017
Paperback (reprint)
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Non-Fiction Biography
In 1845, just seven years after his escape from slavery, the young Frederick Douglass published this powerful account of his life in bondage and his triumph over oppression. The book, which marked the beginning of Douglassβs career as an impassioned writer, journalist, and orator for the abolitionist cause, reveals the terrors he faced as a slave, the brutalities of his owners and overseers, and his harrowing escape to the North. It has become a classic of American autobiography. This edition of the book, based on the authoritative text that appears in Yale University Pressβs multivolume edition of the Frederick Douglass Papers, is the only edition of Douglassβs Narrative designated as an Approved Text by the Modern Language Associationβs Committee on Scholarly Editions. It includes a chronology of Douglassβs life, a thorough introduction by the eminent Douglass scholar John Blassingame, historical notes, and reader responses to the first edition of 1845.
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