A review by zbmorgan
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

5.0

As disjointed and incomplete as this sometimes feels, it was still remarkable. For someone who was never formally educated, Douglass is an astounding writer who saw the injustice not only in slavery, whippings, and torture, but in the inability for blacks to be taught to read. Even pre-civil war, the difference in attitude between the north and the south was astounding. Every American should read it to fully understand our past and our present.