num_pages: 470
description: Born around 1817 in Maryland, Frederick Douglass was a former plantation slave who went on to become a brilliant writer and eloquent orator. In this amazing first-hand narrative, published in 1881, he vividly recounts his early years, which were filled with physical abuse, deprivation, and tragedy; his dramatic escapes to the North, recapture, and eventual freedom; his work for the Anti-Slavery Society and influential role in speaking for other African-Americans; his abolitionist campaigns, and crusade for full civil rights for former slaves.
language: English
title: The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
titlecomplete: The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (African American)
genres: Civil War, Biography, Race, American History, Classics, Autobiography, Nonfiction, African American, History, Memoir
ratings_count: 1603
series: The Frederick Douglass Papers Series, The Autobiographies
publisher: Dover Publications