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Douglass's best-known work is his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, written during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts [82] and published in 1845. At the time, some skeptics questioned whether a black man could have produced such an eloquent piece of literature.
Frederick Douglass moves to Lynn. [11] September 28 - Frederick Douglass is thrown off [12] the Eastern Railroad train at Lynn Central Square station for refusing to sit in the segregated coach [13] [14] [15] 1845 Frederick Douglass writes his first autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave [13] while living ...
Frederick Douglass: Frederick Douglass National Historic Site: 1877–1895 Kyle: Douglass wrote the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass in this house, which he named "Cedar Hill". [76] Langston Hughes [[]] Langston Hughes House, Washington D.C. 1924–1926 Washington D.C.
A bust of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass was unveiled in the Massachusetts Senate Chamber on Wednesday, the first bust of an African American to be permanently added to the Massachusetts ...
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 Lynn, Massachusetts. [1]
In 1841, abolitionist Frederick Douglass, moved to Lynn as a fugitive slave. Douglass wrote his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, while living in Lynn. The publication would become Douglass's best-known work. Douglass, his wife, and their five children lived in Lynn until 1848. [32]
Douglass passed in 1895, but his life and work played a significant role in shaping the discourse on slavery, freedom and civil rights in the United States. Honor his legacy with 45 Frederick ...
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 ...