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Preface

• NOTE: Citations in this Lesson Plan refer to the following version of the book: Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Dover Publications, Inc. 1995. Kindle Edition.

• In the Introductory Note, the publishers give a brief introduction to author Frederick Douglass and his achievements: “Perhaps the most powerful and influential black American of his time, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) embodied the tumultuous social changes that transformed the United States during the nineteenth century. In a career of unprecedented breadth, Douglass rose from the oppression of his slave’s birth to become an internationally famous writer and orator, one of the most visible spokesmen for the Abolition movement before the Civil War and a key player in the political intrigues that followed the enfranchisement of the emancipated slaves after the Confederate surrender” (x).

• Douglass published three autobiographies in his lifetime. This is the first of...

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