Having escaped from slavery at age 20, he took the name Frederick Douglass for himself and became an advocate of abolition. After his escape from slavery, Douglass became a renowned abolitionist, editor and feminist.
He is the author of The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race, winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, and Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. Frederick Douglass (né Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey) was born a slave in the state of Maryland in 1818. John Stauffer is Professor of English, American Studies, and African American Studies at Harvard University. Written in part as a response to skeptics who refused to believe that so articulate an orator could ever have been a slave, the Narrative reveals the eloquence and fierce intelligence that made Douglass a brilliantly effective spokesman for abolition and equal rights as he shapes an inspiring vision of self-realization in the face of unimaginable odds. Blight (Author) 4. It brought him to the forefront of the antislavery movement and drew thousands, black and white, to the cause. A first edition copy of the memoir and antislavery book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) Third Edition by David W.
Published seven years after his escape from slavery, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) is a powerful account of the cruelty and oppression of the Maryland plantation culture into which Frederick Douglass was born.
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