Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (book review)

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (book review)

he taught himself to read and write

 

 

Book review:

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass:

     An American Slave

 

by Frederick Douglass

Benjamin Quarles, ed.

Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, written 1845, copyright 1960

163 pp.

 

Narrative is a devastatingly calm account of the life of Frederick Douglass as a slave and then a free man.

It’s very hard to read, let alone imagine the reality of the whippings that Douglass describes. It’s horrifying to recognize that some human beings brutalized other human beings with a whip.

Douglass taught himself to read and write.

He informs us about history that we don’t want to know, but must accept as true.

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