Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself is the most relevant nineteenth-century slave narrative written by a former male slave, and a highly influential work for the anti-slavery movement. It was Douglass' first autobiography and in it he describes his triumphant progress from slavery to freedom and makes it parallel to his liberating journey from illiter...