Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass’ 1845 Narrative is accompanied by a preface and explanatory footnotes. Included are contemporary perspectives, along with essays, a chronology and bibliography.

Frederick Douglass wrote this narrative himself. He was born into slavery circa 1818, but escaped in his 20's. In the early 1840's the antislavery movement gained momentum. In 1841 Douglass attended an abolitionist movement and was hired as an abolitionist speaker for the American Anti Slavery Society. He was one of the few black employees that worked for the mostly white society. His speeches and writings greatly contributed to the triumph of the Anti Slavery Society, the passing of the 13th amendment and the ending of slavery in the US. A classical book.

My Bondage and My FreedomA Slave NarrativeByFrederick DouglassFrederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1818 - February 20, 1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writings. He stood as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Even many Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave. Douglass wrote several autobiographies. He described his experiences as a slave in his 1845 autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which became a bestseller, and was influential in promoting the cause of abolition, as was his second book, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855). After the Civil War, Douglass remained an active campaigner against slavery and wrote his last autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. First published in 1881 and revised in 1892, three years before his death, it covered events during and after the Civil War. Douglass also actively supported women's suffrage, and held several public offices. Without his approval, Douglass became the first African American nominated for Vice President of the United States as the running mate and Vice Presidential nominee of Victoria Woodhull, on the Equal Rights Party ticket. A firm believer in the equality of all peoples, whether black, female, Native American, or recent immigrant, Douglass famously said, "I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong."

En amerikansk slaves liv er et enestående portrett av borgerrettighets.aktivisten og statsmannen Frederick Douglass som barn og ung mann. Den autentiske førstehåndsberetningen gir et direkte og usminket inn.blikk i Sør.statenes nedverdigende og brutale slaveri. Biografien dekker perioden fra Douglass ble født, sannsynligvis i 1818, på en plantasje i Maryland, frem til 1838 da han la slaveriet bak seg og først rømte til New York og siden til New Bedford i Massachusetts. Boken ble første gang utgitt av Massa.chusetts Anti-Slavery Society i Boston i 1845. Det var sju år før Harriet Beecher Stowe skrev den popu.lære anti.slaveriromanen Onkel Toms hytte, og seksten år før den amerikanske borgerkrigen brøt ut. I løpet av årene før borgerkrigen solgte boka i over 30 000 eksemplarer og ble et uvurderlig verktøy for abolisjonister, og ikke minst en sentral inspirasjons- og informasjons.kilde for Stowes tidobbelt så populære roman. En amerikansk slaves liv ble grunnsteinen i en litterær og politisk karriere som på den tida aldri hadde sett sin like blant svarte i Vesten.