Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
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In this memoir, Frederick Douglass chronicles life as an enslaved boy in the American South, his eventual escape, and his new beginnings as a free man and abolitionist.
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SOURCE
Public Domain
DATE OF PUBLICATION
1845

Title Page
NARRATIVE
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.
BOSTON:
OF THE
LIFE
OF
FREDERICK DOUGLASS,
AN
AMERICAN SLAVE.
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.
BOSTON:
PUBLISHED AT THE ANTI-SLAVERY OFFICE,
No. 25 Cornhill
1845.Copyright Page
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1845,
By Frederick Douglass,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.
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