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Hace 4 días · Frederick Douglass, African American abolitionist, orator, newspaper publisher, and author who is famous for his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself. He became the first Black U.S. marshal and was the most photographed American man of the 19th century.
Hace 1 día · Douglass quickly became a prominent figure in the abolitionist movement, using his personal experiences and keen intellect to expose the evils of slavery. His first autobiography, "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave," published in 1845, provided a vivid and harrowing account of his life in bondage.
Hace 5 días · Douglass published his Narrative in 1845, chronicling his own experiences of slavery, but he feared for the safety of himself and his family, as the book would undoubtedly bring unwanted attention.
Hace 22 horas · Among them were African American writings, including William Wells Brown’s novel Clotel and autobiographies such as Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of an American Slave and Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; women’s fiction, such as Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Susan Warner’s The Wide, Wide World, and Fanny Fern’s Ruth Hall; and ...
Hace 4 días · In Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Douglass writes: “Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity.
Hace 4 días · Historians have known John Jacobs as a barely documented player in radical abolitionist circles of the 1840s, who sometimes lectured alongside Frederick Douglass, his neighbor in Rochester, N.Y. In 1851, Douglass broke with the white abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, rejecting his view of the Constitution as an irredeemable “covenant with death.”
Hace 2 días · 2 Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom (New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855), 189–191. 3 William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner (New York: Random House, 1967), won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1968; Madison Smartt Bell, All Souls’ Rising (New York: Pantheon, 1995), was a National Book Award finalist in 1995.
