The story spans Douglass’s twenty years in slavery, his success in escaping it, and his initial involvement in the abolitionist movement. Born of a slave mother and white father (who was probably his master), Douglass tells a powerful tale of the beatings and mistreatment that he observed and endured. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American SlaveĪn autobiography set mainly in Maryland from 1818 to 1838: published in Massachusetts in 1845.ĭouglass’s story is a firsthand account of the brutal treatment and continual oppression of slavery that takes place in a border state in the first half of the nineteenth century.Įvents in History at the Time the Autobiography Takes PlaceĮvents in History at the Time the Autobiography Was Writtenįrederick Douglass was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in the cabin of his grandmother, Betsey Bailey, on Tuckahoe Creek in Talbot County, Maryland, sometime around February of 1818.
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