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Frederick Douglass Autobiographies Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times of Frederick Douglass - Library of America
Author: Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass, born a slave, educated himself, escaped, and made himself one of the greatest leaders in American history. His brilliant anti-slavery speeches were so fiercely intelligent, and so startlingly eloquent, that many people didn't believe he had been a slave. To prove them wrong, Douglass decided to write his own story. His autobi...  more »ographical narratives stunned the world, and have shocked, moved, and inspired readers ever since. Here, complete for the first time in one authoritative volume, are the three powerful and gripping stories, now recognized as classics of American writing. Fascinating firsthand accounts of slavery and abolitionism, John Brown and Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Reconstruction, and the emerging struggle for civil rights, they are above all the inspiring story of a self-made American: a slave who became adviser to the President, minister to Haiti, and the most influential black American of the nineteenth century.  « less

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ISBN-13: 9780940450790
ISBN-10: 0940450798
Publication Date: 2/1/1994
Pages: 1,100
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Publisher: Library of America
Book Type: Hardcover
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