Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. Written by Himself.

“You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man…” —Frederick Douglass

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Second Boston printing of Frederick Douglass’s first autobiography, documenting his early life on Edward Lloyd’s plantation in Maryland, his pivotal battle with Edward Covey, the “slavebreaker,” and his journey to self-education and self-emancipation.

Published seven years after Douglass escaped slavery, Benjamin Quarles wrote that “the first-hand evidence [Douglass] submitted and the moving prose in which he couched his findings and observations combine to make his Narrative one of the most arresting autobiographical statements in the entire catalogue of American reform.”

Douglass’s 1845 Narrative was followed by two subsequent autobiographies—My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881).

A stunning copy of the book that “made Frederick Douglass the most famous black person in the world.” (David Blight)

Price: $12,500.00