Escape From Slavery

The Boyhood of Frederick Douglass in His Own Words

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by Frederick Douglass,

Edited by Michael McCurdy

Random House, Inc

Due/Published January 1994, 63 pages, paper

ISBN 0679846514

Illus. in black-and-white. Opening note by Coretta Scott King. For the first time, the most important account ever written of a childhood in slavery is accessible to young readers. From his days as a young boy on a plantation to his first months as a freeman in Massachusetts, here are Douglass's own firsthand experiences vividly recounted—expertly excerpted and powerfully illustrated.