Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

The “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” is an 1845 memoir of slavery and escape and a treatise on abolition written by the writer, orator and former slave Frederick Douglass. Describing in gripping detail the circumstances of his upbringing, his brutal treatment at the hands of slave-owners, and his narrow escape from Maryland to freedom, the book is one of the most famous works of Ameri...