Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass

This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader contend with Douglass? nineteenth-century style and vocabulary.Born into a family of slaves, Frederick Douglass educated himself through sheer determination. His unconquered will to triumph over his circumstances makes his one of America's best and most unlikely success stories. Douglass? own account of his journey from slave to one of America's great statesmen, writers, and orators is as fascinating as it is inspiring.