TY - BOOK AU - Douglass,Frederick AU - Stepto,Robert B. TI - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself T2 - The John Harvard Library SN - 9780674053755 AV - E449 .D749 2014 U1 - 973.8/092B 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Cambridge, MA : PB - Harvard University Press, KW - Abolitionists KW - Biography KW - United States KW - African American abolitionists KW - Slaves KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical KW - bisacsh N1 - restricted access N2 - No book more vividly explains the horror of American slavery and the emotional impetus behind the antislavery movement than Frederick Douglass' Narrative. In an introductory essay, Robert Stepto re-examines the extraordinary life and achievement of a man who escaped from slavery to become a leading abolitionist and one of America's most important writers. The John Harvard Library text reproduces the first edition, published in Boston in 1845 UR - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674053755?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674053755 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674053755/original ER -