Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Publisher Marketing: The powerful story of slavery that has become a classic of American autobiography, now in an authoritative edition. This dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave was first published in 1845, when its young author had just achieved his freedom. Douglass' eloquence gives a clear indication of the powerful principles that led him to become the first great African-American leader in the United States. *** Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in 1818, and after his escape in 1838 repeatedly risked his own freedom as an antislavery speaker, writer and publisher. Review Citations: Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 749 (EAN 9780312075316, Paperback) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 749 (EAN 9780451526731, Mass Market Paperbound) Ingram Paperback Advance 05/01/2005 pg. 63 (EAN 9780451529947, Mass Market Paperbound) Ingram Paperback Advance 01/01/2005 pg. 11 (EAN 9780345478238, Mass Market Paperbound) School Library Journal 11/01/2002 (EAN 9781584721659, Other) Library Journal 04/01/2003 (EAN 9781584721659, Other) Wilson Public Library Catalog 12/31/2008 pg. 976 (EAN 9780140390124, Paperback) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2013 pg. 1158 (EAN 9780140390124, Paperback) Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2002 pg. 92 (EAN 9780300087017, Paperback) Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2002 pg. 92 (EAN 9780300088311, Hardcover) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 749 (EAN 9780674601017, Paperback) Choice 07/01/2010 (EAN 9780872865273, Paperback) Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2010 pg. 67 (EAN 9780872865273, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  Douglass, Frederick Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey (Frederick Douglass) was born a slave in Talbot County, Maryland. He took the name Douglass after escaping from the South in 1838. As a leader in the abolitionist movement, Douglass was famed for his eloquent yet incisive political writing. And, like his near-contemporary, Booker T. Washington, understood the central importance of education in improving the lives of African Americans, and was therefore an early proponent of desegregation. A firm believer in equal rights for all, Douglass attended a meeting of the National Council of Women in Washington, D. C., in the hours before his death in February 1895.