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Washington (CBS.MW) - Good news for difficult airlines: There is life after bankruptcy. From his enslavement to freedom, Frederick Douglass was one of Americas most extraordinary champions of liberty and equality. This masterfully written book is all the more remarkable because it is the product of one who as a slave was denied the right to any schooling. Narrative of the life of frederick douglass audiobook chapter 2. Upon successfully escaping slaveryon his third attemptin 1838, Douglass became one of the key leaders of the abolitionist movement in the United States. It is the only Douglass autobiography to discuss his life during and after the Civil War, his encounters with several American presidents including Lincoln and Garfield, his account of the ill-fated 'Freedman's Bank', and his service as the United States Marshall of the District of Columbia and as U. Frederick Douglass (18181895), né Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, was born into slavery in Maryland. The emancipation of American slaves during and following the American Civil War enabled him to relate in this volume more details of his life as a slave and his escape from slavery than he could in his two previous autobiographies, which would have put him and his family in danger.

LibriVox recording of Life and Times of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass.įrederick Douglass published his highly acclaimed third autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, in 1881 and revised it in 1892.

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