Book description
This richly illustrated edition of this classic American autobiography sheds new light on Douglass's famous text for a new generation of readers.
Famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass published his third and last autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, in 1881. No longer in danger as an escaped…
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1 author picked The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book moves me whenever I open it, no matter the chapter, no matter the page.
It presents the harrowing tale of Douglass’s flight from slavery as a young man with a degree of urgency and detail that is not found in his other writings.
But it is the account of his travels through Europe and North Africa as a man of almost seventy, finally free to pursue his lifelong wanderlust, that is perhaps most poignant: “I had strange dreams of travel even in my boyhood days,” he writes. “I thought I should some day see many of the famous…
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