Life and Times of Frederick Douglass Contributor(s): Douglass, Frederick (Author) |
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ISBN: 1612030408 ISBN-13: 9781612030401 Publisher: Bottom of the Hill Publishing OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General - Social Science | Slavery |
Lexile Measure: 1400 |
Physical Information: 0.65" H x 7.5" W x 9.25" (1.18 lbs) 310 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass was Douglass' third autobiography. This book he recounts early years of abuse; his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom, abolitionist writing in greater detail about his life. It is the only autobiography in which he discusses his life during and after the Civil War, including encounters with American Presidents Lincoln, Grant, and Garfield. Frederick Douglass was born in slavery as Frederick 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, where he learned to read and write, with the assistance of his master's wife. In 1838 he escaped from slavery and went to New York City, where he married Anna Murray, a free colored woman whom he had met in Baltimore. Soon thereafter he changed his name to Frederick Douglass. In 1841 he addressed a convention of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in Nantucket and so greatly impressed the group that they immediately employed him as an agent. He was such an impressive orator that numerous persons doubted if he had ever been a slave, so he Wrote Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass. His other autobiographical works are My Bondage and My Freedom and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, published in 1855 and 1881 respectively. He died in 1895. |