Frederick Douglas: American Slave and Abolitionist (1868)

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896) was famous American abolitionist and author who wrote over 30 books, with her most famous work being "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

Frederick Douglass (1818 – 1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writings.



Contents:
The Opportunity for Every Man in a Republic
The Depth Below a White Man's Poverty
The Starting Point whence Fred Douglass Raised Himself
His Mother
Her Noble Traits
Her Self-Denial for the sake of Seeing him
She Defends him against Aunt Katy
Her Death—Col. Loyd's Plantation
The Luxury of his own Mansion
The Organization of his Estate
" Old Master"
How they Punished the "Women
How Young Douglass Philosophized on Being a Slave
Plantation Life
The Allowance of Food
The Clothes
An Average Plantation Day
Mr. Douglass' Experience as a Slave Child
The Slave Children's Trough
The Slave Child's Thoughts
The Melancholy of Slave Songs
He Becomes a House Servant
A Kind Mistress Teaches him to Head
How he completed his Education
Effects of Learning to Read
Experiences Religion and Prays for Liberty
Learns to Write—Hires his Time, and Absconds
Becomes a Free Working-Man in New Bedford
Marries—Mr. Douglass on Garrison
Mr. Douglass' Literary Career.

This book originally published in 1868 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.