Thursday, January 27, 2011

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

In this book, the first of three autobiographies that Douglass would write, Douglass writes about his experiences as a slave. He spends a lot of time dealing with how he learned to read and write and his decisions to stand up for himself (against Mr. Covey) and to escape to freedom. He doesn't detail the escape itself so that other enslaved persons could still use that route. The book is brief, but moving.

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