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In Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) is both a memoir and a powerful polemic on justice and is a foundational text in the creation of American identity. With a new introduction and timeline.
Brief description: Frederick Douglass (c. 1817-1895) was the son of an enslaved African American mother and a white father. As a young boy he defied the law by learning to read and write. He credits his literacy as the key to freedom. He became an outspoken abolitionist lecturer, advocate for women's rights, and enormously influential author of hundreds of books, essays, and speeches.