Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

He wasn't supposed to be able to read. He wasn't supposed to be able to write his own story. He did both anyway-and named his former owners.Published in 1845, Frederick Douglass's Narrative is the book that turned a 27-year-old escaped man into the most powerful abolitionist voice in America. Douglass lays out, in spare and devastating detail, exactly how slavery was built to work: the deliberate ...