Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself, Critical EditionPosted in Autobiography, Books, Media Archive, Monographs, Slavery, United States on 2016-11-14 20:38Z by Steven |
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself, Critical Edition
Yale University Press
2016-10-25
264 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/4
7 b/w illustrations
Paperback ISBN: 9780300204711
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895)
Edited by:
John R. McKivigan, Mary O’Brien Gibson Professor of History
Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis
Peter P. Hinks
Heather L. Kaufman, Research Associate
The Douglass Papers
A new edition of one of the most influential literary documents in American and African American history
Ideal for coursework in American and African American history, this revised edition of Frederick Douglass’s memoir of his life as a slave in pre-Civil War Maryland incorporates a wide range of supplemental materials to enhance students’ understanding of slavery, abolitionism, and the role of race in American society. Offering readers a new appreciation of Douglass’s world, it includes documents relating to the slave narrative genre and to the later career of an essential figure in the nineteenth-century abolition movement.