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At a meeting of the Rochester Ladies¿ Anti-Slavery Society on July 5th, 1852, Frederick Douglass, a writer and orator who escaped from slavery, gave a speech that would go down in history. What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? is an impassioned cry for freedom, exposing the emptiness of democratic ideals in a nation built by slaves.

Sitting down for dinner, Mr. Listwell is interrupted by a knock at the door. He finds Madison Washington, a local slave, standing on his threshold. Missing for years, Madison had been presumed to have made his way North or at least died trying. Hungry and desperate, he asks Mr. Listwell for help. The Heroic Slave is a novella by Frederick Douglass.

First published in 1845, Frederick Douglass' narrative is the first of three autobiographies he wrote. It gives his account of his journey from slavery to freedom and is one of the most widely-read books of this genre. Though contemporaries such as William Wilson and Martin Delany challenged the authenticity or approach of Douglass' description, his story continues to resonate with modern readers as a testament to the indomitable spirit's triu...

Universally recognized today as one of the most important and influential Americans of the nineteenth century, Frederick Douglass rose to prominence in the national abolitionist movement before and during the Civil War by virtue of the vividness and power with which, drawing on his personal experiences of enslavement and freedom, he spoke and wrote against American slavery--and he continued to propound his vision of an America that would affor...

This inexpensive compilation of the great abolitionist's speeches includes "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" (1852), "The Church and Prejudice" (1841), and "Self-Made Men" (1859).

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.

2023 Reprint from the 1852 Edition. The preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass's Narrative powerfully details the life of the abolitionist from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in 1838, how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and driver, how he learned to read and write, and how he grew into a man who could only live free or die. This is an auto...

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The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass was written in 1845, seven years after Douglass escaped slavery, and is the first of three autobiographies. It covers his life as a slave, enduring the whips of the overseers and the hopelessness of his circumstances, until his escape to the north and arrival at New Bedford, Massachusetts. The brutalities he witnessed and his slowly growing desire for freedom are presented in the vivid language h...

Enter the world of a slave, with all the pathos, brutal honesty, and striving of the heart to breathe free.Frederick Douglass was born in slavery in Talbot County, Maryland. During service to masters cruel and kind, he nevertheless learned to read and write. After suffering whippings, hunger, heat, cold, and grueling labor, he escaped from slavery in 1838. In 1841 he addressed an Anti-Slavery Society convention and spoke so eloquently that the...

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For the first time in a deluxe collector's boxed set, the definitive edition of the writings of the great African American freedom fighter, including all 3 of his classic memoirs and the best of his impassioned speeches and journalism For more than five decades, from the antebellum period through the Civil War and Reconstruction and into the Gilded Age, Frederick Douglass used his voice and wielded his pen in support of abolition and emancipat...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by African-American orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literat...

My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass and published in 1855. It is the second of three autobiographies written by Douglass, and is mainly an expansion of his first, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. The book depicts in greater detail his transition from bondage to liberty. Following this liberation, Douglass went on to become a prominent abolitionist, speake...

The selected correspondence of the great American abolitionist and reformer dating from the immediate post-Civil War years

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