Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave / written by himself. Edited by Benjamin Quarles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Contributor:

Quarles, Benjamin, editor.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

John Harvard library

The John Harvard library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.

Douglass, Frederick.

Abolitionists--United States--Biography.

Abolitionists.

United States.

African Americans--Biography.

African Americans.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (stamp) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxvi pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 163 pages, 1 unnumbered page : map, portrait ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass., The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1960.

Summary:

An autobiographical account of a childhood and youth spent in slavery by a man who became a great abolitionist and leader of anti-slavery activity.

Contents:

Introduction / by Benjamin Quarles

Chronology of Douglass' Life

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Preface / by William Lloyd Garrison; Letter / from Wendell Phillips, Esq.; The Narrative.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has embossed stamp "JB Library of Joanna Banks".

Banks Collection copy is paperback editon with "A Harvard Paperback HP33" printed on front cover and spine.

Banks Collection copy is "Tenth Printing, 1979".

ISBN:

0674601017

OCLC:

427111