num_pages: 80
description: Illus. in black-and-white. Opening note by Coretta Scott King. For the firsttime, the most important account ever written of a childhood in slavery isaccessible to young readers. From his days as a young boy on a plantation tohis first months as a freeman in Massachusetts, here are Douglass's ownfirsthand experiences vividly recounted--expertly excerpted and powerfullyillustrated. "A book that belongs in every library."--(pointer) "Kirkus."
language: English
title: Escape from Slavery : The Boyhood of Frederick Douglass in His Own Words
titlecomplete: Escape from Slavery : The Boyhood of Frederick Douglass in His Own Words
genres: History, Classics, Biography, Memoir, African American, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 128
publisher: Bt Bound