Reviews

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape From Bondage and His Complete Life Story by Frederick Douglass

ogoz's review against another edition

3.0

Good short book by Frederick Douglas and his experience in childhood and young adulthood under the oppression of slavery.

hydrogen406's review

challenging informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

eralon's review

4.5

Wonderful autobiography. The only slightly silly reason I gave it 4 stars and not 5 stars, is because "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass," and "My Escape from Slavery" were compact power-punches of writing. By contrast, this one was long enough that it had time to meander, for example, into topics like Douglass's relation to the Freedman's Savings Bank that to a modern reader isn't as interesting.