Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by African-American orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lyn
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Frontispiece of Douglass from the first edition
Douglass, photographed between 1850 and 1860
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The slave narrative is a type of literary genre involving the autobiographical accounts of enslaved persons, particularly black Africans enslaved in the Americas, though many other examples exist. Ove
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
…Times of Frederick Douglass (1881, revised 1892). Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most…
Slave narrative of Thomas H. Jones published in 1871