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4.14 AVERAGE
4.14 AVERAGE
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Content Warnings
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Blood, Grief, Abandonment
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I remember hearing this book being referenced multiple times in studies so it was interesting to read in my first year of university. It was enlightening to get a closer perspective of the realities of slavery and the life and liberation.
An important (and easy) read. Should be required reading for students.
A deep and poignant book that everyone should read, Frederick Douglass's story doesn't end in 1865 with the abolition of slavery but continues to this day wherever injustice reigns and tyranny prevails. I found the graphic depictions disturbing as they were intended. He illustrates the injustice and the depravity and puts into words his desperation and hopelessness so well that it really does not need a translator or mindful eye to 19th century jargon and literary style.
Like Lincoln, Douglass speaks such common sense and in such a powerful tone that it resonates through the years to his reader quite plainly and effectively (something that cannot be said of many of their contemporaries). I found myself gripped to his story and desperate to hear how it ended as did its original readers no doubt. For years I had been taught about Douglass's eloquence and he did not disappoint
Any racist, any bigot, any proponent to the dominance of one group of men over another should be made to read this book and garner a respect for the opinion of the oppressed.
Like Lincoln, Douglass speaks such common sense and in such a powerful tone that it resonates through the years to his reader quite plainly and effectively (something that cannot be said of many of their contemporaries). I found myself gripped to his story and desperate to hear how it ended as did its original readers no doubt. For years I had been taught about Douglass's eloquence and he did not disappoint
Any racist, any bigot, any proponent to the dominance of one group of men over another should be made to read this book and garner a respect for the opinion of the oppressed.
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Incredible and tragic history borne on the back of Mr. Frederick Douglass and many others. Should be required reading
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