Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass E-book
Author: Frederick Douglass
Genre: Government / Economics, History / Biography
American abolitionist, journalist, and orator. Born in Maryland,
the son of a slave and a white father, Douglass escaped to
Massachusetts in 1838 where he lectured against slavery. Later
forced to flee to England and Ireland, he returned with enough
money to purchase his freedom. Founded The North Star, an
antislavery newspaper. Published Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845), raised two Black
Civil War regiments and (1889-91) served as minister to Haiti.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)
Douglass' earliest and best-known book, Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass, an American Slave was first published in 1845
and then revised in 1892. It is an important American biographical
work that details the early life of a remarkable man who fled for
freedom and who spent his life working for the freedom of others.
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