This book is among the most moving and powerful I've ever read. Frederick Douglass was a true survivor against the most perilous of odds, and someone whose strength and faith remained (and remain) alive in the written word--in the very abilities to read and write.Publisher's description:
This dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave was first published in 1845, when its young author had just achieved his freedom. Douglass' eloquence gives a clear indication of the powerful principles that led him to become the first great African-American leader in the United States. The personal account of a fugitive slave's privation and sufferings and his campaigns for Negro emancipation.
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