Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglassby Frederick Douglass | |
| List(s): | "Carp 500" |
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| Category: |
"U.S. History - Cultural" |
| Pages: | 163 |
| Year of Publication: | 1845 |
| Date Added: | 03/03/1999 |
| Date Read: | 10/08/1998 |
| Notes: | Frederick Douglass takes us from his birth to the time he began his activities as an abolitionist. In a work filled with pain and pathos, one marvels at Douglass's ability to restrain intense emotion in describing the pain and injustice he endured as a slave and his longing to be free. COMMENTS — Frederick Douglass was born a slave in Maryland. Separated from his mother when only a few weeks old, he was raised by his grandparents. At about the age of six, his grandmother took him to the plantation of his master and left him there. He was not told that she was going to leave, and Douglass never recovered from the betrayal. In 1838, at the age of twenty, he succeeded in escaping by impersonating a sailor. |
| My Rating: | 7 |