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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 326.0924 EAN: 9780140390124 ISBN: 014039012X Label: Penguin Classics Manufacturer: Penguin Classics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 160 Publication Date: August 26, 1982 Publisher: Penguin Classics Studio: Penguin Classics Editorial Review: Product Description: Presents the memoirs of the famed abolitionist and statesman who escaped to the North after years of enslavement and who became a champion of human rights. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Should be in every libraryThough I am skeptical about most 'history,' this book was written by a man who felt oppression and fought it. This book as well Douglass' other writing should be the primary source on slavery and the civil war. This book, as well as its excellent forward, serves to warn that slavery could happen here again disguised as something else. It reminds us that slavery is not an institution but a crime. This edition is the best as far as size and print quality. It has also best ... Read More Rating: - KINDLE EDITION: Excellent!I wrote this review to mention the Kindle Edition. Many lower-priced Kindle editions of books have bad formatting problems that make the book difficult or even impossible to read. Not this one! I found the formatting was excellent throughout. In two places the footnotes were slightly misplaced, but it was easy to figure out from context what the text was. In general, the Kindle formatting was better than many more recent (and expensive!) books. The content was also excellent (as ... Read More Rating:  - Forecasting King Leopold's GhostOne of the fifth grade teachers at Braeburn Elementary in Houston once told us that "Slaveowners had to treat their slaves well in order to get them to work. Just like a horse. If you are cruel to a horse it won't do what you want." This type of happy apologia for slavery was still alive and openly espoused in the Houston Independent School District in the 1970's, and done in front of white, black, Hispanic, and Asian children. Perhaps Mrs. Allen would have benefited from reading Frederick ... Read More Rating:  - Frederick DDOuglass ReviewIt had some writing in it, but overall a good deal for the price. Thanks Rating: - Freedom through Abolitionism in th 19th Century87 years after the Declaration of Independence, the Emancipation Proclamation was enacted and after the the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution Enslaved Americans gained thier freedom. Before the civil war Abolitionist were the Advocates of change in America the struggle to gain ones freedom from the experiences of slavery in the south is told from the true experiences of Fredrick Douglass. From Slavery to the Struggle for freedom to escape is the story told here, but also ... Read More |
