Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Douglass, Frederick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014039012X ISBN 13: 9780140390124

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1982

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Douglass Frederick

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Reseña del editor:

Published in 1845, this autobiography powerfully details the life of the internationally famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in 1838 - how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and drivers, how he learned to read and write, and how he grew into a man who could only live free or die. In his introduction, Houston A. Baker, Jr., discusses the slave narrative as a distinct American literary genre and points out its social, political, historical, and literary significance, past and present.

Biografía del autor:

Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery in 1818 in Tuckahoe, Maryland. He changed his surname to Douglass to conceal his identity after escaping slavery in 1838 and making his way to Philadelphia and New York. Having been taught to read by the wife of one of his former owners, Douglass wrote later that literacy was his 'pathway from slavery to freedom', and in 1845 he published his instantly bestselling Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Renowned as the foremost African American advocate against slavery and segregation of his time, he repeatedly risked his own freedom as an antislavery lecturer, writer and publisher. He died in Washington, D.C., in 1895, and after lying in state in the nation's capital, was buried in the Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York.

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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1982
• ISBN 10: 014039012X
• ISBN 13: 9780140390124
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
• Herausgeber: Baker Houston