# Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

by [Frederick Douglass](https://localbooks.app/authors/frederick-douglass)

- Genres: [سيرة ذاتية](https://localbooks.app/genres/biography-memoir/autobiography), [التاريخ الأمريكي](https://localbooks.app/genres/history/american-history)
- Set in: [بالتيمور, ماريلند, الولايات المتحدة](https://localbooks.app/places/us/maryland/baltimore); [ايستون, ماريلند, الولايات المتحدة](https://localbooks.app/places/us/maryland/easton); [نيو بدفورد, ماساتشوستس, الولايات المتحدة](https://localbooks.app/places/us/massachusetts/new-bedford)
- Audience: Adult
- Published: 1845
- Pages: 127

## Description

Born into slavery on Maryland's Eastern Shore, Douglass tells how he secretly learned to read as a boy in Baltimore, was sent to a man known for breaking slaves, and fought back. Written seven years after his escape north, it named names and places at real risk to its author.

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