Cover of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: title page, first edition, 1845

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass

Length
18 mornings, about 2,000 words a reading

About the book

This is a memoir by Frederick Douglass, first published in Boston in 1845. Douglass was born into slavery in Maryland, escaped to the North in 1838, and became a speaker for the anti-slavery movement. Some who heard him doubted that so able a speaker had ever been a slave. In this book he answered them, naming real people and places.

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