{"product_id":"narrative-of-the-life-of-frederick-douglass-an-american-slave-hardcover-1","title":"Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrederick Douglass\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDavid W. Blight\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe pathbreaking autobiography of America's most influential abolitionist and former slave, now with an introduction from Pulitzer Prize-winning Douglass biographer David W. Blight \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrederick Douglass was born into slavery in 1818 on a farm on Maryland's Eastern Shore. He lived in bondage for two decades, experiencing nearly every brutal treatment, physical and psychological, that a young slave could face--but he also learned to read, a key that would unlock his freedom, even as he was tormented by a fuller understanding of his inhumane fate. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt age twenty, in a cunning and brave plot hatched with a few friends and his intrepid fiancée, Douglass escaped from slavery by train, steamer, and ferryboat over some thirty-eight hours to New York City, disguised as a sailor. His story is one of great drama and risk in the face of what he called the \"prison\" and the \"tomb\" of slavery. But in recollecting these events, Douglass also left us an illegal refugee-immigrant's language of fear and courage, and forged the greatest of American slave narratives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a coming-of-age story of violent redemption, and a work of prose poetry about the quintessentially American crisis of slavery and freedom in an expanding republic. One hundred eighty years on from its initial publication, and presented here for the Modern Library Founding Documents series with a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David W. Blight, Douglass's \"soul's complaint\" lives as sublimely now as ever.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid W. Blight\u003c\/b\u003e is Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eFrederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e. Blight is also the author of the multiple award-winning \u003ci\u003eRace and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 7.49 x 5.05 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 19, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47595505910013,"sku":"9798217199402","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/5EIQL1sMR89798217199402.webp?v=1779990982","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/narrative-of-the-life-of-frederick-douglass-an-american-slave-hardcover-1","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}