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Frederick Douglass, c.1879. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass is Frederick Douglass's third autobiography, published in 1881, revised in 1892. Because of the emancipation of American slaves during and following the American Civil War, Douglass gave more details about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery in this volume than he could in his two previous autobiographies (which would ...
Frederick Douglass, c. 1840s, in his 20s. Frederick Douglass and Anna Murray Douglass settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts (an abolitionist center, full of former enslaved people), in 1838, moving to Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1841. [71] After meeting and staying with Nathan and Mary Johnson, they adopted Douglass as their married name. [38]
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass comprises eleven chapters that recount Douglass's life as a slave and his ambition to become a free man. It contains two introductions by well-known white abolitionists : a preface by William Lloyd Garrison and a letter by Wendell Phillips , both arguing for the veracity of the account and the ...
Frederick Douglass, from the 1855 frontispiece. My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass and published in 1855. It is the second of three autobiographies written by Douglass and is mainly an expansion of his first, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
On a hot night in August 1841, fugitive slave Frederick Douglass stood before a thousand white people inside a rickety wooden building in Nantucket, Mass. A handful of Black people appeared in the ...
August – Henry Highland Garnet delivers his famous speech Call to Rebellion. [citation needed] 1845. Publication of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself. [citation needed] 1847. Frederick Douglass begins publication of the abolitionist newspaper the North Star. [citation needed]
Booklist, in a starred review, wrote "Focused, informative writing and strong, effective illustrations combine to make this the go-to Frederick Douglass biography for younger students." [1] and the School Library Journal wrote "Although this title is similar in scope to Doreen Rappaport's Frederick's Journey, the two books complement each other ...
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