A review by gschmidt05
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

5.0

Phew! I feel like I learned a lot that I should have already known. It’s such a difference to learn the history from the umglossed words of someone who lived it than from dry academic texts that combine multiple stories to give an overview. Douglass wrote without affect or pretension, just telling the truth as he remembered it and felt it. This should be required reading, even just single chapters, in middle school history.