A review by lindarlissima
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

4.0

Had to read this in middle school or high school and the passages about learning to read stuck in my head at the time, as it was the first narrative I had read by an escaped slave. Such a passion for learning, risking a beating and potentially death to do it, and there I was in school complaining about homework! Rereading this now I found particularly eloquent his condemnation of the southern version of Christianity, the outrageous hypocrisy of whipping people during the week and praying in church on Sundays. Will read his later books as this one was short and he was still young when he wrote it.