Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Frederick Douglass
- First Published: 1845
- 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
Critical Evaluation:
There are about six thousand records in existence of slaves who either wrote their own stories or told them to others. Of these works, commonly known as slave narratives, Frederick Douglass’ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave is nearly universally considered to be the most compelling and well written. Douglass went on to write two more autobiographies, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) and The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881), to found several abolitionist magazines—most notably North...
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