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Frederick Douglass

Portrait of Frederick Douglass.
Portrait of Frederick Douglass. Source · Public domain
Narrative of the Life and What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?

Frederick Douglass

1845 / 1852 · 19th Century · Memoir

This Douglass entry pairs the 1845 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass with the 1852 speech commonly known as What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? The Narrative tells Douglass's movement from enslaved childhood in Maryland through violence, literacy, skilled labor, resistance, escape, and public abolitionist identity.

high medical relevanceRace SlaveryJustice LawLanguage / Storytelling