Description
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave is a 1845 autobiographical memoir detailing Douglass’s life as an enslaved person, his fight for freedom, and his journey to becoming an influential abolitionist orator. The book is a key piece of anti-slavery literature that exposed the brutalities of slavery, including the physical and emotional cruelty, the separation of families, and the denial of education. It is considered the most famous of the slave narratives published in the United States before the Civil War.Â
