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NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS
The Black History Classic
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
With an Introduction by
DEBRA NEWMAN HAM & TOM BUTLER-BOWDON
This edition first published 2021
Introduction copyright © 2021 Debra Newman Ham and Tom Butler-Bowdon
The material for this edition is based on the 1845 edition of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, published by The Anti-Slavery Office, Boston.
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INTRODUCTION
By Debra Newman Ham & Tom Butler-Bowdon
As an ex-slave, orator, journalist and political organizer who challenged both slavery and institutional racism in America, Frederick Douglass was a seminal figure of the nineteenth century. He arguably did more than anyone to turn the country against the “peculiar institution”.
Douglass's Narrative is one of the first accounts of slavery by a fugitive slave. It is both a balanced first-hand insight into his own harrowing story, and a window into the common slavery practices in his time, including its destruction of family life, extreme poverty,
