Vida d'un esclau americà explicada per ell mateix va ser publicada per primera vegada el 1845 i és la narració del recorregut de l'esclau Frederick Douglass des d'una plantació de Maryland fins la seva fugida a Massachusetts...
Today Frederick Douglass is best known for his autobiographies ; but while he was alive he was known as a fiery orator who was always in demand. Collected here are ten of Frederick Douglassâ addresses. And while it is impossible to hear...
The Heroic Slave was Frederick Douglassâ only piece of fiction. He wrote it in response to the Rochester Ladiesâ Anti-Slavery Societyâs request for a submission to be included in their anthology Autogr...
Frederick Douglass was born in slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland. In 1838 he escaped from slavery and went to New York City, where he married Anna Murray, a free colored woman whom he had met in Baltimo...
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 peri...
My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass and published in 1855, discussing in greater detail his transition from bondage to liberty. Douglass, a former slave, following his liberation went on to become...
Frederick Douglass is born a slave (perhaps the bastard son of his owner), separated from his mother at a young age, and raised in ignorance for a horizon-less life of servitude. In his own words, Douglass tells about the habitual mistreatment he suffered...
The Heroic Slave (1852) is a novella by Frederick Douglass. Although he is more frequently recognized as prominent orator and autobiographer who spearheaded the American abolitionist movement, Douglass published one work of fiction in his lifetime. Inspir...
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) is a speech by Frederick Douglass. Having escaped from slavery in the South at a young age, Frederick Douglass became a prominent orator and autobiographer who spearheaded the American abolitionist movement...
Self-freed slave. Activist. Abolitionist. Writer. Orator. Hero. The first of the great statesmanâs memoirs, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass , was published in 1845, nearly seven years after he escaped from slavery in Maryland...
Narrative written by Frederick Douglass about his journey from slavery to free man. First published in 1845, newly reprinted by New York History Review.