Фредерик Дуглас

Творчество Дугласа запечатлело эпоху аболиционизма, борьбы с рабством, вклад, который внесли в свое освобождение темнокожие американцы. Во Фредерике Дугласе счастливо соединились писатель и общественный деятель, просветитель и государственный муж. Начав жизненный путь в тяжелейших условиях рабства, он достиг признания благодаря природному таланту, воле, самоотверженности, трудолюбию и мужеству.

ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP Frederick Douglass's powerful autobiographical account of life in bondage and his triumphant escape to freedom. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION

Book DescriptionOne of the most important documents in American history. In this wrenching, classic autobiography, Douglass describes himself as a man who became a slave-and, later, a slave who became a man.

In 1845, just seven years after his escape from slavery, the young Frederick Douglass published this powerful account of his life in bondage and his triumph over oppression. The book, which marked the beginning of Douglass’s career as an impassioned writer, journalist, and orator for the abolitionist cause, reveals the terrors he faced as a slave, the brutalities of his owners and overseers, and h...

He was one of the most astonishing men from a time period that included the likes of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant, and Frederick Douglass defied the standards of the 19th century. With some instruction from the kindly wife of a slavemaster, he taught himself to read and write and eventually escaped his human bondage, going on to become one of the most brilliant orators of the day and a bes...

This Modern Library edition combines two of the most important African American slave narratives—crucial works that each illuminate and inform the other. Frederick Douglass’s Narrative, first published in 1845, is an enlightening and incendiary text. Born into slavery, Douglass became the preeminent spokesman for his people during his life; his narrative is an unparalleled account of the dehum...