What is the best biography of Frederick Douglass?

What is the best biography of Frederick Douglass?

Best Books About Frederick Douglass

• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass.
• My Bondage My Freedom by Frederick Douglass.
• The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass.
• Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W.

Is Frederick Douglass’s book an autobiography?

He published his first autobiography ‘Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave’ in May 1845 in Boston. The book was an instant bestseller, but it put Douglass at risk as in it he had ‘named and shamed’ his white slave owners.

How many pages is Frederick Douglass’s autobiography?

The entire book is only seventy-six (76) pages. It features an interesting preface by noted abolitionist and publisher, William Lloyd Garrison, who actual had an opportunity to hear Frederick Douglass, as a fugitive slave, speak at an anti-slavery convention in Nantucket, MA in 1841.

What kind of book is Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass?

Autobiography
Biography
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave/Genres

Who wrote a biography of Frederick Douglass?

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Who was Frederick Douglass’s father?

Born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, a slave, in Tuckahoe, Talbot County, Maryland. Mother is a slave, Harriet Bailey, and father is a white man, rumored to be his master, Aaron Anthony. He had three older siblings, Perry, Sarah, and Eliza.

What is Frederick Douglass’s purpose?

Douglass’s goals were to “abolish slavery in all its forms and aspects, promote the moral and intellectual improvement of the COLORED PEOPLE, and hasten the day of FREEDOM to the Three Millions of our enslaved fellow countrymen.” How else did Douglass promote freedom?

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