An autobiographical account by the runaway slave Frederick Douglass that chronicles his experiences with his owners and overseers, and discusses how slavery affected both slaves and slaveholders.
A simple biography of the man who, after escaping slavery, became an orator, writer, and leader in the anti-slavery movement in the nineteenth century.
A biography of escaped slave and abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, that chronicles his early years as a slave in Maryland, escape to New York as a young man, and his fame as a public speaker on emancipation.
Presents the 1855 autobiography of Frederick Douglass, telling of his experiences as a slave and discussing his life after he was able to escape to freedom.