Slave narrative
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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, one of the most famous slave narratives
Slave narrative of Thomas H. Jones published in 1871
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He was "the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century
Slave narrative
…from the dehumanized slave to the self-emancipated free man. This change often entailed literacy as a means to overcome captivity, as the case of Frederick Douglass highlights. The narratives are very graphic to the extent that extensive accounts of e.g. whipping, abuse and rape of enslaved women are exposed in…
Douglass, c. 1879
Anna Murray Douglass, Douglass's wife for 44 years, portrait c. 1860
Douglass, c. 1840s, in his 20s
The home and meetinghouse of the Johnsons, where Douglass and his wife lived in New Bedford, Massachusetts