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A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. New York: Dover Publications, Inc. Douglass, Frederick (2003). Stauffer, John (ed.). My Bondage and My Freedom: Part I – Life as a Slave, Part II – Life as a Freeman, with an introduction by James McCune Smith. New York: Random House. Douglass, Frederick (1994).
Frederick Douglass, from the 1855 frontispiece. My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass and published in 1855. It is the second of three autobiographies written by Douglass and is mainly an expansion of his first, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. The book ...
Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 14, 1818 [a] – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He became the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century.
Douglass forced the nation to come face to face with the “immeasurable distance” that separated free whites and enslaved Black people 76 years after the country’s independence, nearly 11 ...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass comprises eleven chapters that recount Douglass's life as a slave and his ambition to become a free man. It contains two introductions by well-known white abolitionists : a preface by William Lloyd Garrison and a letter by Wendell Phillips , both arguing for the veracity of the account and the ...
The Columbian Orator is a collection of political essays, poems, and dialogues collected and written by Caleb Bingham. Published in 1797, it includes speeches by George Washington , Benjamin Franklin , and some imagined speeches by historical figures such as Socrates and Cato . [ 1 ]
Together with Stone, he compiled and published [28] The Woman's Rights Almanac for 1858, [29] which provided data such as income disparity between the sexes as well as a summary of gains made by the national movement during its first seven years. He also compiled and published, in 1858, "Consistent Democracy. The Elective Franchise for Women.
The narrative written by Frederick Douglass was based on the famous Creole revolt led by an enslaved cook, Madison Washington. Douglass's fictional Madison Washington was a deeply romanticized character, which strongly deviated from nonfiction accounts of the real Madison Washington.