- GLC#
- GLC05117
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- 1846
- Author/Creator
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
- Title
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave. Written by himself.
- Place Written
- Wortley, England
- Pagination
- 1 v. : 170 p. : Height: 19 cm, Width: 11.6 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Slavery & Anti-slavery
One book titled Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave. Written by himself by Frederick Douglass dated 1846. This is the third English edition, and contains a frontispiece print of Douglass. It was printed by Joseph Barker. Includes a preface to the second Dublin edition, preface to the first American edition, and a letter from Wendell Phillips (April 22, 1845).
The narrative is followed by an appendix and "American Slavery," a "Report of a public meeting held at Finsbury Chapel, Moorfields, to receive Frederick Douglass" (May 22, 1846). The last pages contain information on the American Anti-Slavery Society for the "Friends of the Slave."
The book is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by African-American orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts. It comprises eleven chapters that recount Douglass's life as a slave and his quest for freedom.
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