Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Frederick Douglass's Narrative recounts his life as a slave in Maryland and escape to freedom in 1838. An important slave autobiography, it is significant both for what it tells us about slave life and about its author.

About the author

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was an African American abolitionist and social reformer, author, orator, and statesman. John R. McKivigan is Mary O'Brien Gibson Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. Peter P. Hinks is a public historian, historical editor, and author of numerous essays and books on African American and American history before the Civil War. Heather L. Kaufman is coeditor of several volumes on Douglass and a research associate of the Douglass Papers.

Product details

• Authors: Frederick Douglass
• Assisted by: John W Blassingame (Editor), John W. Blassingame (Editor), Peter P Hinks (Editor), John R McKivigan (Editor), John R. Mckivigan (Editor)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.2001
• EAN: 9780300087017
• ISBN: 978-0-300-08701-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 197 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Nota bene; Yale Nota Bene
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918