description: Born into slavery from a white father, Frederick Douglass secretly taught himself to read and write--a crime punishable by death--and thus passed on to us this eloquent indictment of the institution of slavery.
language: English
title: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
titlecomplete: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
characters: Frederick Douglass
genres: Classics, Autobiography, History, Race, American History, African American, Biography, School, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 119297
places: Maryland, The United States of America
series: The Autobiographies, Voices of the African Diaspora
publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks