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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

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A memoir and treatise on abolition written by a famous orator and former slave. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. This is the first of Douglass' three autobiographies.

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