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A review by alex_ellermann
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
This short book clocks in at only four hours of listening time. They may be the best four hours you spend this year.
Frederick Douglass’s autobiography is searing, approachable, and informative. It describes, in agonizing detail, what it means to be enslaved. It impeaches the cruelty of “bad” and “good” slaveholders alike. It gives us the growth and flowering of a man as he realizes his self-worth in a society bent on dehumanizing him at every turn.
Much as we’d like to look away, the story of slavery is every bit as much a part of the American tapestry as the story of the Battle of Yorktown. Every American owes to himself to read this book. It will inform you. It will anger you. It will inspire you.
It is, simply put, a masterpiece.
Frederick Douglass’s autobiography is searing, approachable, and informative. It describes, in agonizing detail, what it means to be enslaved. It impeaches the cruelty of “bad” and “good” slaveholders alike. It gives us the growth and flowering of a man as he realizes his self-worth in a society bent on dehumanizing him at every turn.
Much as we’d like to look away, the story of slavery is every bit as much a part of the American tapestry as the story of the Battle of Yorktown. Every American owes to himself to read this book. It will inform you. It will anger you. It will inspire you.
It is, simply put, a masterpiece.