Frederick Douglass wrote autobiography, speeches and political prose about slavery, literacy, abolition, citizenship and racial equality in the United States. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass recounts his birth into slavery in Maryland, separation from family, the violence of enslavement, his determination to learn to read and his eventual escape. My Bondage and My Freedom expands the autobiographical account and gives more space to his intellectual and political development, while Life and Times of Frederick Douglass revisits his life from a later perspective. His speeches and essays address abolition, the Constitution, the Civil War, Reconstruction and the gap between American democratic ideals and racial oppression. Douglass's prose is direct, argumentative and shaped by both personal witness and public persuasion. His work fits slave narrative, African American history, political writing and nineteenth-century autobiography. The 1845 Narrative is the most accessible starting point before moving to the longer autobiographies and speeches. Read more Less
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