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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: A Library of America Paperback Classic
Contributor(s): Douglass, Frederick (Author), Stauffer, John (Introduction by)
ISBN: 1598533517     ISBN-13: 9781598533514
Publisher: Library of America
OUR PRICE:   $7.16  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: October 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Social Activists
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
Dewey: B
Lexile Measure: 550
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.45 lbs) 128 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Topical - Black History
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Topical - Civil War
 
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Publisher Description:
One of the greatest works of American autobiography, in a definitive Library of America text: Published seven years after his escape from slavery, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) is a powerful account of the cruelty and oppression of the Maryland plantation culture into which Frederick Douglass was born. It brought him to the forefront of the antislavery movement and drew thousands, black and white, to the cause. Written in part as a response to skeptics who refused to believe that so articulate an orator could ever have been a slave, the Narrative reveals the eloquence and fierce intelligence that made Douglass a brilliantly effective spokesman for abolition and equal rights, as he shapes an inspiring vision of self-realization in the face of unimaginable odds.