Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Written by Himself (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Frederick Douglass
- First Published: 1881
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: African Americans, Freedom, Blacks, Abused persons, Biracial people, Abolitionists, Authors or writers, Escapes, Slavery or slaves, Violence, Civil War, Reading, Public speaking
- Locales: Maryland, Massachusetts
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Written by Himself documents the author's life in the 1800's, a century that includes Douglass's birth in its second decade and his ascension to governmental appointments during the 1870's and 1880's. Douglass's third autobiography is divided into three sections. Part 1, in the same manner as Douglass's earlier autobiographies, focuses on the first twenty years of Douglass's life as a slave in Maryland. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass is an autobiographical Bildungsroman that is more than Douglass's coming-of-age story; it...
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