The first Dublin edition of his book (shown here) was published in September 1845. Fearing for his safety, he fled to Britain and began an abolitionist tour of the country. Frederick Douglass, the most influential black man in 19th-century America, wrote 1,200 pages of autobiography, one of the most impressive performances of memoir in the nation’s history.The. The book was an instant bestseller, but it put Douglass at risk as in it he had 'named and shamed' his white slave owners.

He published his first autobiography 'Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave' in May 1845 in Boston. DISCOVER ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ACCOUNTS OF SLAVERY IN NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICA One of historys greatest crimes, the American slave trade led to. He was compelled to 'tell the story of the slave'. Douglass would eventually write three autobiographies, beginning with Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845). Frontispiece of the first Dublin edition of Frederick Douglass's 'Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave', published in 1845.įrederick Douglass escaped from slavery in Maryland, USA to the Northern United States in 1838.

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