Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass

Name: Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
ISBN: 0300087012

by Frederick Douglass · first published 1845

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A first-person account of escaping slavery, written with vivid detail and moral clarity. It serves as an introduction to slavery and abolition and offers perspective on resilience under adversity.

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Biography & Memoir

This book is an autobiographical account by runaway slave Frederick Douglass that chronicles his experiences with his owners and overseers and discusses how slavery affected both slaves and slaveholders.

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dwwoelfel · Aug 25, 2010 · Recommends

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0300087012 I read this after listening to the following lecture: http://arc-tv.com/inspiring-heroes-great-leaders%E2%80%94fre.... His strength of character allowed him to…
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wu-ikkyu · Jul 5, 2018 · Recommends

>stack the deck against them The question is: how should one react to learning that life is unfair and full of adversity against them? Perhaps the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass could serve as a good example? I wonder if Douglass had just remained hopeless, blamed others, and waited on the government to fix his problems, instead of learning to read, educating himself, and becoming…
on “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro (1852)” ↗
7000skeletons · Nov 6, 2018 · Recommends

If you only ever read one book on slavery and the abolitionist movement, it really ought to be 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass'. I can remember reading it for the first time at uni as part of a module on American History, and just how potently it brought home the realities of what it was to be in the situation Douglass was in.
on “The Double Battle: Frederick Douglass’s Moral Crusade” ↗
mitchbob · May 9, 2021 · Recommends

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Written by Himself. (1845) [1][2] [1] https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/douglass/douglass.html [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_of_the_Life_of_Frede...
on “Ask HN: Which autobiographies would you recommend and why?” ↗
erellsworth · Sep 22, 2022 · Recommends

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
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kirse · Nov 30, 2022 · Recommends

Are you really lost if you can point out you're lost? Read some Ecclesiastes or "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl. Or maybe "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" for some perspective. At certain times in life the watering hole dries up, when external and/or internal motives have been squeezed to their last drop it sometimes feels like a desert. Those moments…
on “Ask HN: How do you overcome feeling completely lost in life?” ↗
Kaibeezy · Sep 20, 2023 · Mentions

…by Sigmund Freud "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" by Benjamin Franklin "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. Du Bois "The Analects" by Confucius "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare" by William Shakespeare Historical Documents: Magna Carta (1215) Declaration of…