Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave / written by himself ; edited with an introduction by David W. Blight.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Contributor:

Blight, David W.

Series:

Bedford books in American history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.

Douglass, Frederick.

African American abolitionists--Biography.

African American abolitionists.

Abolitionists--United States--Biography.

Abolitionists.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

x, 163 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, [1993]

Summary:

This dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave was first published in 1845, when its young author had just achieved his freedom. Douglass' eloquence gives a clear indication of the powerful principles that led him to become the first great African-American leader in the United States. The personal account of a fugitive slave's privation and sufferings and his campaigns for Negro emancipation. This dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave was first published in 1845, when its young author had just achieved his freedom. Douglass' eloquence gives a clear indication of the powerful principles that led him to become the first great Afro-American leader in the United States.

Contents:

INTRODUCTION: "A Psalm of Freedom"

Pt. 1. The Document

Preface by William Lloyd Garrison, May 1,1845

Letter from Wendell Phillips, Esq., April 22,1845. Narrative Of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself

Pt. 2. Selected Reviews, Documents, and Speeches. Caleb Bingham, "Dialogue Between a Master and a Slave," in The Columbian Orator (1797). Margaret Fuller, Review of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, New York Tribune, June 10, 1845. Ephraim Peabody, "Narratives of Fugitive Slaves," excerpt, Christian Examiner, July 1849. Nathaniel P. Rogers, "Southern Slavery and Northern Religion," two addresses delivered in Concord, New Hampshire, February 11, 1844, as reported in (Concord, N.H.) Herald Freedom, February 16,1844. Frederick Douglass, "My Slave Experience in Maryland," an address delivered in New York City, May 6, 1845, as recorded in National Antislavery Standard, May 22,1845. Frederick Douglass, Letter to Thomas Auld, September 3, 1848, published in The North Star, September 8,1848; and The Liberator, September 22, 1848. Frederick Douglass, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" speech delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852

App. A Douglass chronology (1818-1895).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-156) and index.

Local Notes:

Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.

ISBN:

0312096674

9780312096670

0312075316

9780312075316

OCLC:

27336500