![]() ![]() He changed his surname to Douglass to conceal his identity after escaping slavery in 1838 and making his way to Philadelphia and New York. ![]() The pre-eminent American slave narrative published in 1845, the Narrative powerfully details the life of the 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.Īlso included in this edition are Douglass's famous oration The Meaning of the Fourth of July to the Negro and his only known work of fiction, the novella The Heroic Slave.įrederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery in 1818 in Tuckahoe, Maryland. ![]() A new paperback edition of the penguin classic African American autobiography, now with the inclusion of Douglass's other works. ![]()
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