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petrice2329's review
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
justjordie's review against another edition
challenging
informative
sad
fast-paced
4.25
Incredible to hear the first hand perspective of his enslavement.
By a stroke of luck and then pure determination/grit he learned how to read and write.
Interesting how he referred to it as “his career in slavery.”
By a stroke of luck and then pure determination/grit he learned how to read and write.
Interesting how he referred to it as “his career in slavery.”
maggie_elisabeth's review
5.0
This is an amazing book. A bit painful, but important. I read this first for school a few years ago, and every time I come back to it, I think, more than I do with any other book, wow...people are so stupid. And wicked of course. But what hurts the most in this book are the people who didn't think they were being wicked, like the lady that was kind at first and then became corrupted with the power she held over her slaves. When it comes to portraying slavery at its awful worst, this book is bounds ahead of any I've ever read.
As a Christian, it is painful to me to read about how people twisted God's word to defend their wicked practices. What were they thinking? I don't know. How did they get what they got out of the Bible? I have no clue.
All I know is that this is a book that everyone needs to read.
As a Christian, it is painful to me to read about how people twisted God's word to defend their wicked practices. What were they thinking? I don't know. How did they get what they got out of the Bible? I have no clue.
All I know is that this is a book that everyone needs to read.
findmeatthelibrary's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.5
mjmitten's review against another edition
5.0
Humbling and moving. And despite the cover, he was in his late 20s when he wrote this.
icekofy's review
5.0
why are there so many colleges named after thomas jefferson and non after frederick douglass (i know why but come on)
alex_ellermann's review
challenging
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inspiring
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medium-paced
5.0
This short book clocks in at only four hours of listening time. They may be the best four hours you spend this year.
Frederick Douglass’s autobiography is searing, approachable, and informative. It describes, in agonizing detail, what it means to be enslaved. It impeaches the cruelty of “bad” and “good” slaveholders alike. It gives us the growth and flowering of a man as he realizes his self-worth in a society bent on dehumanizing him at every turn.
Much as we’d like to look away, the story of slavery is every bit as much a part of the American tapestry as the story of the Battle of Yorktown. Every American owes to himself to read this book. It will inform you. It will anger you. It will inspire you.
It is, simply put, a masterpiece.
Frederick Douglass’s autobiography is searing, approachable, and informative. It describes, in agonizing detail, what it means to be enslaved. It impeaches the cruelty of “bad” and “good” slaveholders alike. It gives us the growth and flowering of a man as he realizes his self-worth in a society bent on dehumanizing him at every turn.
Much as we’d like to look away, the story of slavery is every bit as much a part of the American tapestry as the story of the Battle of Yorktown. Every American owes to himself to read this book. It will inform you. It will anger you. It will inspire you.
It is, simply put, a masterpiece.