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Narrative of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
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Narrative of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
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List price R368
Loot Price R303
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A new edition of the classic African American autobiography, now
with with the inclusion of Douglass's other works. The pre-eminent
American slave narrative published in 1845, the Narrative
powerfully details the life of the abolitionist Frederick Douglass
from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in
1838: how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities
of his owners and drivers, how he learned to read and write, and
how he grew into a man who could only live free or die. Also
included in this edition are Douglass's famous oration The Meaning
of the Fourth of July to the Negro and his only known work of
fiction, the novella The Heroic Slave. Frederick Augustus
Washington Bailey was born into slavery in 1818 in Tuckahoe,
Maryland. He changed his surname to Douglass to conceal his
identity after escaping slavery in 1838 and making his way to
Philadelphia and New York. Having been taught to read by the wife
of one of his former owners, Douglass wrote later that literacy was
his 'pathway from slavery to freedom', and in 1845 he published his
instantly bestselling Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
an American Slave. Renowned as the foremost African American
advocate against slavery and segregation of his time, he repeatedly
risked his own freedom as an antislavery lecturer, writer and
publisher. He died in Washington, D.C., in 1895, and after lying in
state in the nation's capital, was buried in the Mount Hope
Cemetery in Rochester, New York. Ira Dworkin is Associate Director
of the Prince Alwaleed Center for American Studies and Research and
Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at The
American University in Cairo.
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