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by: Frederick Douglass
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.8092
EAN: 9780451529947
ISBN: 0451529944
Label: Signet Classics
Manufacturer: Signet Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: June 07, 2005
Publisher: Signet Classics
Sales Rank: 32116
Studio: Signet Classics
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One of the most important documents in American history.
In this wrenching, classic autobiography, Douglass describes himself as a man who became a slave-and, later, a slave who became a man.
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Rating:  - Should be in every library
Though I am skeptical about most 'history,' this book was written by a man who felt oppression and fought it. This book as well Douglass' other writing should be the primary source on slavery and the civil war.
This book, as well as its excellent forward, serves to warn that slavery could happen here again disguised as something else. It reminds us that slavery is not an institution but a crime.
This edition is the best as far as size and print quality. It has also best ... Read More
Rating: - KINDLE EDITION: Excellent!
I wrote this review to mention the Kindle Edition. Many lower-priced Kindle editions of books have bad formatting problems that make the book difficult or even impossible to read. Not this one! I found the formatting was excellent throughout. In two places the footnotes were slightly misplaced, but it was easy to figure out from context what the text was. In general, the Kindle formatting was better than many more recent (and expensive!) books.
The content was also excellent (as ... Read More
Rating:  - Forecasting King Leopold's Ghost
One of the fifth grade teachers at Braeburn Elementary in Houston once told us that "Slaveowners had to treat their slaves well in order to get them to work. Just like a horse. If you are cruel to a horse it won't do what you want."
This type of happy apologia for slavery was still alive and openly espoused in the Houston Independent School District in the 1970's, and done in front of white, black, Hispanic, and Asian children. Perhaps Mrs. Allen would have benefited from reading Frederick ... Read More
Rating:  - Frederick DDOuglass Review
It had some writing in it, but overall a good deal for the price. Thanks
Rating: - Freedom through Abolitionism in th 19th Century
87 years after the Declaration of Independence, the Emancipation Proclamation was enacted and after the the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution Enslaved Americans gained thier freedom.
Before the civil war Abolitionist were the Advocates of change in America the struggle to gain ones freedom from the experiences of slavery in the south is told from the true experiences of Fredrick Douglass. From Slavery to the Struggle for freedom to escape is the story told here, but also ... Read More
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