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

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass eBook
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The complete online text of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass.


Author Biography

Name: Frederick Douglass
Birth Date: c. 1817
Death Date: February 20, 1895
Place of Birth: Maryland, United States
Place of Death: Washington, DC, United States
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Male
Occupations: abolitionist, publisher, politician

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Biography of Frederick Douglass
908 words, approx. 3 pages
As a journalist, Frederick Douglass is mainly remembered for establishing the North Star, one of the most highly acclaimed abolitionist newspapers. He also founded and edited Douglass' Monthly, one of the few abolitionist magazines. Frederick Augustus Wa...
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Biography of Frederick Douglass
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The foremost African American abolitionist in antebellum America, Frederick Douglass (ca. 1817-1895) was the first African American leader of national stature in United States history. Frederick Douglass was born, as can best be determined, in February 1...
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Biography of Frederick Douglass
173 words, approx. 0.6 pages
Frederick Douglass (1817"-20 February 1895), reformer and journalist, was born to a black slave in Tuckahoe, Maryland. Upon his escape from slavery in 1838, he adopted the last name of Douglass. He married a free black woman and settled in New Bedford, M...
 


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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave Summary
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in the cabin of his grandmother, Betsey Bailey, on Tuckahoe Creek in Talbot County, Maryland, sometime...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Information
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same...


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The Mississippi Quarterly
"Bold defiance took its place"--"respect" and self-making in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.(Critical essay)
06/22/2005: 5,628 words, approx. 19 pages
The creative artistic personality is thus the first work of the productive individual, and it remains fundamentally his chief work, since all his other works are partly the repeated expression of this primal creation--Otto Rank Art and Artist (1932) THE 1845 NARRATIVE OF...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.(Audiobook Review)
11/01/2002: 273 words, approx. 1 pages
(unabr.). 4 CDs. 4:40 hrs. Prod. by Sound Room Pubs. Dist. by Commuters Library. 2001, 2002 release. ISBN 1-58472-165-0. $43. Gr 9 Up--This classic text in both American literature and American history is read by Pete Papageorge with deliberation and simplicity, allowing the...
 


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Critical Essay by Lisa Sisco
15,599 words, approx. 52 pages
In the following essay, Sisco discusses Douglass's ambivalent feelings towards literacy, and his struggle to find an acceptable narrative voice in his works. Sisco also examines Douglass's search for a new identity in post-Civil War America.
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Critical Essay by David W. Blight
10,907 words, approx. 36 pages
In the following introduction, Blight provides an overview of the composition and reception of Douglass's Narrative.
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Critical Essay by Winifred Morgan
10,364 words, approx. 35 pages
In the following essay, Morgan compares Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl with Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and states that scholars have neglected gender-related distinctions between the two texts.
 
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Slave Narratives
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The Classic Slave Narratives, which is a collection of the most famous slave narratives of all time. The Classic Slave Narratives give a fascinating, yet horrifying, account of the lives of four different slaves: Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince, Fredrick Douglass, and Linda Brent.
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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Analysis of Frederick Douglas' "Narrative of a Slave"
1,359 words, approx. 5 pages
Discusses the causes for the continuation of slavery that Douglas discusses in his novel "Narrative of a Slave."
 


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