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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

✍ Scribed by Douglass, Frederick


Book ID
106900607
Publisher
Barnes&Noble
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Weight
141 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781411432765

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✦ Synopsis


SUMMARY: Published in 1845, this pre-eminent American slave narrative powerfully details the life of the internationally famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in 1838β€”how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and drivers, how he learned to read and write, and how he grew into a man who could only live free or die.Enriched eBook Features Editors Houston Baker and Derrick R. Spires provides the following specially commissioned features for this Enriched eBook Classic: * Chronology * Nineteenth-Century Reviews and Responses * Further Reading * Day in a Slave’s Life * Sorrow Songs and Sheet Music * β€œThe Church and Prejudice” (1841) * Introduction to β€œOration,” or β€œThe Meaning of theFourth of July for the Negro” * β€œThe Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro”(1852) * Introduction to β€œThe Heroic Slave” * β€œThe Heroic Slave” (1853) * β€œMy Escape from Slavery” (1881) * Douglass Sites to Visit in the United States * Portraits and Illustrations * Enriched eBook NotesThe enriched eBook format invites readers to go beyond the pages of these beloved works and gain more insight into the life and times of an author and the period in which the book was originally written for a rich reading experience.


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