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4.14 AVERAGE
4.14 AVERAGE
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very well written! but brings up some touchy questions about creative liberties and autobiographical presentation that i've just thought of in connection to this because of a poem we discussed at the tower poetry summer school. credit your wife next time please and thank you
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This was a really excellent narrative. Douglass employs many advanced writing methods that really add to his overall ethos. It was a fascinating first hand experience that I had never read anything like before. I believe that everyone should read this book in school.
I enjoyed Douglass' narrative. The style was well thought out and contemporary in nature. He came across as to deliver a message without being overtly preachy.
A must read for any interested in American history, and particularly African American history. Douglass writes with deft skill, an extremely impressive skill for a slave barred from opportunities for education, and delivers the reader to the horrors of the slave holding South.
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3 / 4 : Read!
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[Celebrated abolitionist Frederick Douglass speaks on his years raised in brutal bondage]
Eyes necessarily razor-sharp to the many hydra heads of human cruelty, Douglass lays bare the institution of slavery, which, in the halls of American education, is sometimes treated less than unsparingly.
For all these books nowadays purporting to be about how good books are, Douglass's memoir makes the simplest and most profound case for reading.
I listened to a narration by Jim Hodges
NON-FICTION
[Celebrated abolitionist Frederick Douglass speaks on his years raised in brutal bondage]
Eyes necessarily razor-sharp to the many hydra heads of human cruelty, Douglass lays bare the institution of slavery, which, in the halls of American education, is sometimes treated less than unsparingly.
For all these books nowadays purporting to be about how good books are, Douglass's memoir makes the simplest and most profound case for reading.
I listened to a narration by Jim Hodges