Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Collins Classics)

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved | essential classics. You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. Born into slavery during the early nineteenth century | Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom before he was twenty-one years old. From the moment he arrived in New York City | he felt a need to tell his story | one that mirrored so many people still enslaved in the South with no hope of escape. As an orator and preacher | Douglass was an abolitionist | supporter of women’s suffrage and staunch defender of equality for all. In his first autobiographical work | published in 1845 | The Narrative of Frederick Douglass describes how he went from slave to a free man.