Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Frederick Douglass · English
Frederick Douglass published this account of his life in slavery in 1845, having escaped from Maryland in 1838.
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Frederick Douglass published this account of his life in slavery in 1845, having escaped from Maryland in 1838. He describes his childhood on the Eastern Shore and separation from his mother, his years in Baltimore where he learned to read against his master's wishes, and his brutal treatment under the slave-breaker Edward Covey, whom he finally resisted. The narrative ends with his escape to the North, whose method he deliberately withholds to protect others, followed by an appendix on the religion of slaveholders. This edition opens with the original preface by William Lloyd Garrison and a letter from Wendell Phillips.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Frederick Douglass · English
Frederick Douglass published this account of his life in slavery in 1845, having escaped from Maryland in 1838.
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In the month of August, 1841, I attended an anti-slavery convention in Nantucket, at which it was my happiness to become acquainted with _Frederick Douglass_, the writer of the following Narrative. He was a stranger to nearly every member of that body; but, having recently made his escape from the southern prison-house of bondage, and feeling his curiosity excited to ascertain the principles and measures of the abolitionists,—of whom he had heard a somewhat vague description while he was a slave
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Frederick Douglass published this account of his life in slavery in 1845, having escaped from Maryland in 1838. He describes his childhood on the Eastern Shore and separation from his mother, his years in Baltimore where he learned to read against his master's wishes, and his brutal treatment under the slave-breaker Edward Covey, whom he finally resisted. The narrative ends with his escape to the North, whose method he deliberately withholds to protect others, followed by an appendix on the religion of slaveholders. This edition opens with the original preface by William Lloyd Garrison and a letter from Wendell Phillips.
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