Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Synopsis of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

«Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave» is the autobiography of Frederick Douglass, published by Penguin Books in paperback.

Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in 1818 and escaped to the North in 1838. This autobiographical account describes life on the plantations of the American South, the violence and dehumanization of slavery, and how learning to read and write marked his path to freedom and his career as an abolitionist.

First volume in The Autobiographies series. The edition includes an introduction by Houston A. Baker Jr. and a preface by William Lloyd Garrison. The book was originally published in 1845.

A work frequently read in academic settings and of interest to those studying the history of the United States and the abolitionist movement.