| Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Contributor(s): Douglass, Frederick (Author) |
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ISBN: 1727492692 ISBN-13: 9781727492699 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $8.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.25" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.38 lbs) 120 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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, -he was induced to give his attendance, on the occasion alluded to, though at that time a resident in New Bedfor |