Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: The Illustrated Edition

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The illustrated version of The us’s most famous autobiography.

Famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass wrote the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, an 1845 memoir and treatise on the abolition of slavery. In describing the facts of his life in clear and concise prose, he fueled the abolitionist movement of the early nineteenth century in the USA.

In this seminal work, Douglass details the cruelty of slave holders, how slaves were supposed to behave in the presence of their masters, the fear that kept many slaves where they were, and the punishments received by any slave who dared to tell the truth about their remedy. He learned to read and write at the same time as still a slave but also suffered by the hands of whites. He was once starved, worked the fields until he collapsed, was once beaten for collapsing, was once jailed for two years after planning an escape attempt, and nearly lost his left eye in an attack at the same time as he was once an apprentice in a shipyard.

Douglass succeeded in escaping to the North and finding his own freedom but kept many details of his journey a secret to offer protection to those who helped him and, confidently, allow others to escape.

Augmented by large sidebars written by soldiers, statesmen, and abolitionists from the antebellum period, in addition to pieces by well-known historians and prominent African-Americans, and a few new pieces by current historians and writers, this richly illustrated edition of this classic American autobiography sheds new light on Douglass’s famous text for a new generation of readers.


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