num_pages: 400
description: Raised as a plantation slave, Douglass went on to become a writer, orator, and major participant in the struggle for African-American freedom and equality. In this engrossing narrative he recounts early years of abuse; his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom, abolitionist campaigns, and his crusade for full civil rights for former slaves. 
language: English
title: Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
titlecomplete: Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
genres: Classics, Autobiography, History, Race, American History, African American, Civil War, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1603
series: The Frederick Douglass Papers Series, The Autobiographies
publisher: Wordsworth Edition