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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (first autobiography). 1853. "The Heroic Slave." pp. 174–239 in Autographs for Freedom, edited by Julia Griffiths. Boston: Jewett and Company. Also in Speeches & Writings volume of The Frederick Douglass Collection: A Library of America Boxed Set (2023).
Frederick Douglass, c.1879. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass is Frederick Douglass's third autobiography, published in 1881, revised in 1892. Because of the emancipation of American slaves during and following the American Civil War, Douglass gave more details about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery in this volume than he could in his two previous autobiographies (which would ...
It is the first of Douglass's three autobiographies, the others being My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881, revised 1892). Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period.
Publication of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself. [citation needed] 1847. Frederick Douglass begins publication of the abolitionist newspaper the North Star. [citation needed] Joseph Jenkins Roberts of Virginia becomes the first president of Liberia. [citation needed] 1849. Roberts v.
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 most prominent spokesperson for abolition in the African American community was Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave whose eloquent condemnations of slavery drew both crowds of supporters as well as threats against his life. Douglass was a keen user of the printed word both through his newspaper The North Star and three best-selling ...
13. “One of the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.” —Oprah Winfrey 14. “The soul that is within me no man can degrade.” —Frederick ...
Franklin and Frederick Douglass, [11] [12] describe the "self-made man in similar language: "Being possessionless and unencumbered by authority is the necessary beginning state for the potential self-made man. One cannot be "made" by the help of a father, teacher, mentor, etc. ..., but must rise by one's own grit, determination, discipline, and ...