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Hace 4 días · 6565 Arlington Blvd • Falls Church, VA 22042. Written in 1845, sixteen years prior to the outbreak of the war that would end institutional slavery in the United States, Frederick Douglass’s autobiography was a major catalyst in stirring sympathy for slaves and raising support for the growing abolitionist movement. The twenty-three-year-old ...
Hace 22 horas · This is evidenced in one of the most prominent early representations of Black childhood: Frederick Douglass’s 1845 autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Here Douglass recounts learning to read without his enslavers’ knowledge, in part by covertly studying copies of the Columbian Orator .
Hace 6 días · 2.2.9.1: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. In the month of August, 1841, I attended an anti-slavery convention in Nantucket, at which it was my happiness to become acquainted with Frederick Douglass, the writer of the following Narrative.
Hace 2 días · Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave -- My Bondage and my freedom -- Life and times of Frederick Douglass.
Hace 2 días · In 1845 the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself became an antebellum international best seller. A fugitive from Maryland slavery, Douglass spent four years honing his skills as an abolitionist lecturer before setting about the task of writing his autobiography.
21 de may. de 2024 · Like Frederick Douglass's Narrative, the only slave autobiography to sell more copies before the Civil War, it unmasks the hypocrisy of Christian slaveholders and exposes with startling intensity the violence of slave life.
Hace 1 día · Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave, a leader of the anti-slavery movement in the North, editor of the abolitionist newspaper The North Star and, after the Civil War, a diplomat for the U.S. government. This excerpt is from an address on West India Emancipation, delivered August 4, 1857.
