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The Complete Works of Frederick Douglass offers an inspiring and powerful look into the life and writings of one of America's most important historical figures. This collection includes Douglass’s autobiographies, speeches, essays, and letters, capturing his incredible...
Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read. This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter. - Reading time of the complete text: about 4 hours - Reading time of the summarized text: 10 minutes The Narrative of the Life of...
Born on a Maryland plantation, Frederick Douglass—born Frederick Baily—doesn’t know the year of his birth. Separated from his mother in infancy, he sees her only a few times, always at night, before she dies. At the age of seven or eight,...
'It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery; secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery; thirdly, the life of comparative freedom; fourthly, the life of conflict and battle; and, fifthly, the life of victory, if...
DISCOVER ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ACCOUNTS OF SLAVERY IN NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICA One of history’s greatest crimes, the American slave trade led to the suffering of untold numbers of men and women. But how can we better understand the lives and experiences of those...
'It was said to me, "Better have a little of the plantation manner of speech than not; 'tis not best that you seem too learned."' Appearing in 1855, My Bondage and My Freedom is the second autobiography written by Frederick Douglass (1818-95), a man who was born into...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by...
Frederick Douglass was born in slavery asFrederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland. He was not sure of the exact year of his birth, but he knew that it was 1817 or 1818. As a young boy he was sent to Baltimore, to be a house servant,...
This carefully crafted ebook: “The Collected Works: A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave + The Heroic Slave + My Bondage and My Freedom + Life and Times of Frederick Douglass + My Escape from Slavery + Self-Made Men + Speeches & Writings”...
'I was born in Tuckahoe I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to...
Voici le plus grand discours anti-esclavagiste. Il a été prononcé le 5 juillet 1852 par le plus célèbre des anciens esclaves, Frederick Douglass, il est magistral, implacable, un feu d'artifice rhétorique utilisant toutes les figures de style possibles pour dénoncer...
Les luttes pour l'égalité et la justice sociale portées au XXe siècle par Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King ou Malcolm X se poursuivent aujourd'hui grâce au mouvement Black Lives Matter. Elles ont une longue histoire, qui commence avec le combat pour l'abolition de...
« Mes lecteurs ont vu comment d'un homme on faisait un esclave ; ils vont voir comment un esclave devint un homme. » Né dans une plantation du Maryland en 1818, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey est esclave de père blanc. En 1825, il est envoyé comme manoeuvre à...
Un Noir, un Blanc, unis dans le même combat pour l'abolition de l'esclavage dans les États-Unis d'avant la guerre de Sécession. S'emparant de la fête nationale américaine, deux grands intellectuels, Frederick DOUGLASS et Henry David THOREAU, prononcent chacun un...
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