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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
by Frederick Douglass
A well-written, earnest, thoughtful autobiography by the abolitionist Fredrick Douglass. With every chapter he affirms the dehumanizing effect that slavery has on slave and slaveholder alike. Like Booker T. Washington, he celebrates the dignity conveyed to a person through hard work. But having been born almost 50 years prior to Washington, and to crueler masters, the two authors differ in spirit, in experience, and in the way that they devoted their lives to building up Americans of African descent. Douglass concentrated his literary studies on rhetoric and the effect is that his Narrative reads as a textbook model for essay writing.
It deserves a place in the canon of Western classics for its representation of the slave experience from a slave’s point of view, grounded in a heart that recognizes that which is True, noble, right, pure, admirable, and excellent.
It deserves a place in the canon of Western classics for its representation of the slave experience from a slave’s point of view, grounded in a heart that recognizes that which is True, noble, right, pure, admirable, and excellent.