creolelitbelle 's review for:

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

3.0

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I liked learning of Frederick Douglass’s life, and the narrator, Jonathan Reese, was great. He made me feel like I could be listening to the whole experience for nights on end at fireside. Douglass was treated with varying degrees of harshness throughout his slavery days, and he worked very hard to obtain his freedom and ways to support himself once free. These sorts of stories have become lost to time from all except those like him who recorded it for everyone to hopefully learn from. Instead of reading bland textbook paragraphs about slavery or documents that students don’t connect with, students should be reading books like this to see how life really could be for a slave. One aspect I especially liked was the hypocrisy Douglass shows by slave masters claiming religion righteousness. Many elements from the book could be correlated to events in reality today. I do wish he told more of his life after slavery in this same account.