Author: Frederick Douglass
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: himself, john, harvard, library, written, slave, life, frederick, douglass, american, narrative
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2009-04-15
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 0674034015
ISBN-13: 9780674034013

No book more vividly explains the horror of American slavery and the emotional impetus behind the antislavery movement than Frederick Douglass’ "Narrative". In an introductory essay, Robert Stepto re-examines the extraordinary life and achievement of a man who escaped from slavery to become a leading abolitionist and one of our most important writers. The John Harvard Library text reproduces the first edition, published in Boston in 1845.

Author: Frederick Douglass
Publisher: ICON Group International, Inc.
Keywords: webster, italian, thesaurus, slave, american, life, frederick, douglass, narrative
Number of Pages: 140
Published: 2006-03-05
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0497262401
ISBN-13: 9780497262402

This edition is written in English. However, there is a running Italian thesaurus at the bottom of each page for the more difficult English words highlighted in the text. There are many editions of The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An Ameri

Author: Frederick Douglass
Publisher: Digireads.com
Keywords: douglass, frederick, life, narrative
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2005-01-01
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 1420922378
ISBN-13: 9781420922370

The "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" is regarded as one of the most important accounts of slavery in 19th century America that has ever been written. The story accounts Douglass’s life from early childhood growing up on a Southern Plantation to his eventual escape to the North. Douglass tells of his life with various owners, his struggle to learn and teach other slaves, and his eventual escape from slavery. As an escaped slave Douglass becomes a passionate abolitionist and served as an inspiration to many other early African Americans.

Author: Frederick Douglass
Publisher: Digireads.com
Keywords: freedom, bondage
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 1420930605
ISBN-13: 9781420930603

"My Bondage and My Freedom" is the classic slave narrative of Frederick Douglass that tells the tale of his captivity and his freedom from slavery in the early to middle 1800s. "My Bondage and My Freedom" is an important document of the state of race relations and the politics of slavery leading up to the American Civil War and in its pages we find the voice that made Frederick Douglass one of the nation’s most prominent figures in the American Anti-Slavery movement as well as an intimate portrait of his life.

Author: Frederick Douglass
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: rediscovery, black, freedom, bondage
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1969-06-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0486224570
ISBN-13: 9780486224572

Born a slave, Douglass became an outspoken force in the antislavery movement. The best of Douglass’s autobiographies. Graphic description of slave life.

Author: Frederick Douglass
Publisher: Digital Scanning Inc.
Keywords: life, complete, history, present, published, time, bondage, slave, frederick, times, douglass, written, himself, escape
Number of Pages: 628
Published: 2001-05-01
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 1582183678
ISBN-13: 9781582183671

Raised as a plantation slave, Douglass went on to become a writer, orator, and major participant in the struggle for African-American freedom and equality. In this engrossing narrative he recounts early years of abuse; his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom, abolitionist campaigns, and his crusade for full civil rights for former slaves.

Author: Douglass Frederick
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: american, slave, douglass, frederick, life, narrative
Number of Pages: 102
Published: 2009-05-20
List price: $18.75
ISBN-10: 1110366752
ISBN-13: 9781110366750