What Frederick Douglass Revealed—and Omitted—in His Famous.
Ex-slave Frederick Douglass's second autobiography-written after ten years of reflection following his legal emancipation in 1846 and his break with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison-catapulted Douglass into the international spotlight as the foremost spokesman for American blacks, both freed and slave.Read The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass online by Frederick Douglass at ReadCentral.com, the free online library full of thousands of classic books. Now you can read The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass free from the comfort of your computer or mobile phone and enjoy other many other free books by Frederick Douglass.Douglass's autobiography traces his birth into slavery, his escape to the North, and the beginnings of the career that was to make him the preeminent Born into a life of bondage, Frederick Douglass secretly taught himself to read and write. For a slave, it was a crime punishable by death, but it resulted in one of the most eloquent indictments.
Douglass was also a gifted and committed public speaker, outspoken in his criticism of this inhuman practice. The book, published in 1845, originally entitled Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written By Himself, was met with disbelief when it initially came out. Few could believe that an African American slave.Book Review By Mary Elizabeth Ralls Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass: An autobiography written by Frederick Douglass Millennium publication, 1945edition 75 pages Frederick Douglass whose real name was Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey approximately birthdate is in1818, the month or day is not known, he died in 1895. He is one of.
In the 1870's, Douglass moved to Washington, D.C. and began editing a newspaper called The New National Era. The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass was published in 1881. When his wife, Anna, died in 1882, Douglass married Helen Pitts, a white woman who had been his secretary, causing a large controversy. Douglass died of heart failure in 1895.
