A Frederick Douglass Christmas

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Author: Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
Book: "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave"

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Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writings. He stood as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Even many Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave.

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass encompasses eleven chapters that recount Douglass' life as a slave and his ambition to become a free man. Douglass wrote several autobiographies. He described his experiences as a slave in his 1845 autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which became a bestseller, and was influential in promoting the cause of abolition, as was his second book,

This audio presentation shares portions of Chapter X, from the “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave". To learn more about Frederick Douglass visit: http://www.frederickdouglass.org. To learn more about the Frederick Douglass Foundation of California visit: http://fdfca.org.