Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, cFebruary 1818- February 20, 1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement from Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his dazzling oratoryand incisive antislavery writings. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass is Frederick Douglass' third autobiography, published in 1881, revised in 1892. Because of the emancipation of American slaves during and following the American Civil War, Douglass gave more details about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery in this volume than he could in his two previous autobiographies (which would have put him and his family in danger). It is the only one of Douglass' autobiographies to discuss his life during and after the Civil War, including his encounters with American presidents such as Lincoln and Garfield, his account of the ill-fated "Freedman's Bank", and his service as the United States Marshall of the District of Columbia.: Complete History to the Present Time. Including His Connection with the Anti-Slavery Movement; His Labor in Great Britain as well as in His Own Country; His Experience in the Conduct of an Influential Newspaper; His Connection with the Underground Railroad; His Relations with John Brown and the Harper's Ferry Raid; His Recruiting the 54th and 55th Mass. Colored Regiments; His Interviews with Presidents Lincoln and Johnson; His Appointment by Gen. Grant to Accompany the Santo Domingo Commission; Also to a Seat on the Council of the District of Columbia; His Appointment as a United States Marshall by President R. B. Hayes; Also His Appointment by President J. A. Garfield to be Recorder of Deeds in Washington; with Many Other Interesting and Important Events of His Most Eventful Life, with an Introduction by Mr. George L. Ruffin of Boston, Hartford, Conn., Park Publishing Co., 1881.... George Lewis Ruffin (16 December 1834 - 19 November 1886) was an American attorney and judge. In 1869 he was the first African American to graduate from Harvard Law School, and was elected as the first African American to serve on the Boston City Council. Ruffin was elected in 1870 to the Massachusetts Legislature. In 1883, he was appointed by the governor as a judge to the Municipal Court, Charlestown district in Boston, making him the first African American judge in the United States.

My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass.... In the history of his life in bondage, we find, well developed, that inherent and continuous energy of character which will ever render him distinguished. What his hand found to do, he did with his might; even while conscious that he was wronged out of his daily earnings, he worked, and worked hard. At his daily labor he went with a will; with keen, well set eye, brawny chest, lithe figure, and fair sweep of arm, he would have been king among calkers, had that been his mission. It must not be overlooked, in this glance at his education, that Mr. Douglass lacked one aid to which so many men of mark have been deeply indebted

hombre que nos habla de su propia experiencia vital, pero no lo hace por soberbia o porque estime que su vida es especialmente interesante, sino para ayudar a otros seres humanos que siguen siendo esclavos mientras l ha conseguido, despu s de muchos avatares, alcanzar la libertad. Los relatos de antiguos esclavos fueron un g nero literario que prolifer en Estados Unidos en el siglo XIX, al auspicio del movimiento abolicionista, que intentaba probar algo tan evidente para nosotros como que todos los hombres son iguales y que no se puede comerciar con los miembros de una raza como si de animales se tratara.

Primeira tradu o para o Portugu s da autobiografia de Frederick Douglass, escravo fugido, abolicionista, defensor dos direitos da mulher e o primeiro negro candidado vice-presid ncia dos EUA. O relato de Douglass v vido e centrado na rela o entre sua educa o (ele era em grande parte autodidata) e sua liberdade. H muitos anos o livro empregado para ensinar tanto adolescentes quanto crian as (em vers o infantil) americanas, e discutir temas como igualdade, preconceito, necessidade de letramento e temas afins.