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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Author
- Frederick Douglass
- Narrator
- Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Publisher
- SNR Audio
- Publish Date
- 5 December 2024
- Run Time
- 4 hours 56 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Born into slavery in Maryland, Frederick Douglass escaped bondage to become an abolitionist leader, orator and politician, and one of the most famous African-Americans of the 19th century.
His autobiographical
Narrative – an immediate bestseller in 1845 – was soon acknowledged as a pivotal text in the struggle against slavery. In this moving and beautifully written account, he lays bare a system that brutalised everyone it touched. Douglass tells of his childhood and youth under a succession of slaveholders, his secret efforts to gain an education, his dawning political consciousness and his determination to escape.
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- Author
- Frederick Douglass
- Narrator
- Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Duration
- 4 hours 56 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 December 2024
- ISBN
- 9781805362111
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- SNR Audio
- Genre
- Biography and non-fiction prose, Autobiography: general
Synopsis
Born into slavery in Maryland, Frederick Douglass escaped bondage to become an abolitionist leader, orator and politician, and one of the most famous African-Americans of the 19th century. His autobiographical Narrative – an immediate bestseller in 1845 – was soon acknowledged as a pivotal text in the struggle against slavery. In this moving and beautifully written account, he lays bare a system that brutalised everyone it touched. Douglass tells of his childhood and youth under a succession of slaveholders, his secret efforts to gain an education, his dawning political consciousness and his determination to escape.
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