as a plantation slave, Douglass went on to become a writer, orator, and major participant in the struggle for African-American freedom and equality. In this engrossing narrative he recounts early years of abuse; his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom, abolitionist campaigns, and his crusade for full civil rights for former slaves. Raised as a plantation slave, Douglass went on to become a writer, orator, and major participant in the struggle for…
Author: Frederick Douglass · Original publisher: Park Publishing Co. (Hartford, CT), 1881 (by Frederick Douglass, with an introduction by George L. Ruffin)
Tier 1 — Full text hosted on this page. Public domain: first published 1881; full text freely available at Documenting the American South (UNC). The full text is held in fulltexts/ as `8136-life-and-times-of-frederick-douglass.txt` (see fulltexts/INDEX.md).
