Enter the world of a slave, with all the pathos, brutal honesty, and striving of the heart to breathe free.Frederick Douglass was born in slavery in Talbot County, Maryland. During service to masters cruel and kind, he nevertheless learned to read and write. After suffering whippings, hunger, heat, [...]

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is one of the most influential autobiographies ever written. This classic did as much as or more than any other book to motivate the abolitionist to continue to fight for freedom in American. Frederick Douglass was born a slave, he escaped a brutal system [...]

In the most seminal slave narrative ever written, Frederick Douglass writes, "From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me within its foul embrace; and in the darkest hours of my career in slavery, this living word of f[...]

The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass was Douglass' third autobiography. In it he was able to go into greater detail about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery, as he and his family were no longer in any danger from the reception of his work. In this engrossing narrative he recounts ea[...]

Ainutlaatuinen dokumentti orjan elämästä ja samalla katsaus Yhdysvaltain historian pimeään puoleen. Amerikkalainen orja on afroamerikkalaisen kirjallisuuden kiistaton klassikko.Frederic Douglass syntyi Marylandissa vuoden 1818 paikkeilla. Hänen äitinsä oli musta orja, isä taas valkoinen mie[...]