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Frederick Douglass

Narrative of an American Slave

by Frederick Douglass
Andrew L. Barnes
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Life of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass is the most prominent abolitionist, civil rights activist and reform journalist in the 19th Century. Frederick Douglass was raised in extremely oppressive circumstances under the lash of a brutal overseer.

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    April 21, 2008

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      • File size: 142905 KB
      • Duration: 04:57:43

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    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      While a slave, Frederick Douglass learned to read and write, at the same time learning how these skills relate to freedom. After escaping to the North, Douglass used his words to help free others. Andrew L. Barnes reads Douglass's autobiography with the passionate anger, wit, observation, and fear for others still held in an unjust system that the author himself must have brought to his words. Thus, listening to Douglass's narrative takes on the sense of hearing Douglass himself in an abolitionist meeting and brings home how important his speeches were. His heartfelt words shed unique light on a brutal institution in a way few other histories can. J.A.S. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 2, 1995
      Extracts from writings and speeches by the 19th-century abolitionist are paired with Alcorn's dramatic linocuts. (Jan.) Melba Patillo Beals, who as a teenager in 1957 became a key player in a critical civil rights struggle, has abridged for young readers her affecting adult title Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High School (Pocket/Archway, paper $3.99, ages 11-up ISBN 0-671-89900-7). The original edition was reviewed in Nonfiction Forecasts, March 28, 1994. (Feb.). African American children star in one new and one reissued title added to HarperFestival's Let's Read Aloud series: Eloise Greenfield's Honey, I Love, originally published in 1978, receives homey new illustrations by Jan Spivey Gilchrist, who also provides the artwork for Greenfield's bucolic On My Horse ($7.95 each, ages 2-5, 20p, ISBN 0-694-00579-7; -00583-5, Jan.).

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