Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Frederick Douglass
- First Published: 1845
- Time of Work: 1818–1838
- Setting: Maryland
- Principal Characters: Frederick Douglass, Captain Aaron Anthony, Colonel Edward Lloyd, Austin Gore, Hugh Auld, Sophia Auld, Thomas Auld, Edward Covey
- 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
Form and Content
After escaping from slavery, Frederick Bailey changed his name to Frederick Douglass and became a prominent speaker in the abolitionist movement. He was so eloquent that proslavery opponents charged him with being a fraud who had never been a slave and challenged him to reveal the true facts of his life. Such an account was dangerous for Douglass, who could have been captured and returned to slavery for life, but he proceeded to write in specific detail the account of his experience as a slave, in order to reveal the inhumanity of that “peculiar...
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