Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself

No book more vividly explains the horror of American slavery and the emotional impetus behind the antislavery movement than Frederick Douglass's <i>Narrative</i>. In an introductory essay, Robert B. Stepto reexamines 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. This text reproduces the first edition, published in Boston in 1845.