"Historically significant document by Still, a free-born Black man who became an author and abolitionist movement leader in Philadelphia, PA. The volume document the stories of escaped slaves, and remains "the only first-person account of ...

Autobiography of the nineteenth-century abolitionist who advocated the full freedom of the blacks.

One of the most important slave narratives ever written, this book lays bare the realities of enslavement in antebellum America.

Frederick Douglass recounts early years of abuse, his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom, abolitionist campaigns, and his crusade for full civil rights for former slaves.

In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th century in the United States.

Douglass's memoir, first published in 1845, is the moving narrative of twenty-one years of enslavement and escape to freedom.