Bedford/St. Martin's
January 2003
On Sale: December 25, 2002
188 pages ISBN: 0312257376 EAN: 9780312257378 Kindle: B0045OUPNY Paperback / e-Book (reprint) Add to Wish List
This second edition of Douglass's Narrative reprints this
classic document together with speeches and letters, all in
a volume designed for undergraduate students. An extensive
introduction places the Narrative in its historical and
literary contexts with annotations on needed background.
Born into slavery from a white father, Frederick Douglass
secretly taught himself to read and write--a crime
punishable by death--and thus passed on to us this eloquent
indictment of the institution of slavery.