The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

An American Slave

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by Frederick Douglass

Harvard University Press

Due/Published October 1990, 163 pages, paper

ISBN 0674601017

This dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave was first published in 1845, when its young author had just achieved his freedom. Douglass' eloquence gives a clear indication of the powerful principles that led him to become the first great African-American leader in the United States.