Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

The Autobiographies #1

Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass

464 pages • first pub 1845 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography classics history race emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume. Frederick Douglass's Narrative, first published in 1845, is an enlightening and incendiary text. Born into slavery, D...

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