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Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglas: An American SlaveBy Douglass Frederick

In a Nutshell

This 1845 memoir of abolitionist Frederick Douglass uses his life story as an enslaved person and prominent abolitionist to illustrate the evils of chattel slavery.

Favorite Quote

A want of information concerning my own was a source of unhappiness to me even during childhood. The white children could tell their ages. I could not tell why I ought to be deprived of the same privilege.

Frederick Douglass

Introduction

Like millions of his fellow countrymen, Frederick Douglass was born into slavery and grew up experiencing violence and deprivation.

Yet Douglass would eventually rise to become one of America's key political actors before and after the Civil War.

Published in 1845, Douglass' first memoir and autobiography became an influential pro-abolition treatise.

In the text, Douglass thoroughly recounts the cruelties of enslavement and rebukes the principles that allowed such an evil to pass.

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