Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

By: Frederick Douglass

Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano

Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings.

Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Likewise, Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave. This is his story.

Geoffrey Giuliano is the author of over 30 internationally best-selling biographies, including the London Sunday Times best seller Blackbird: The Life and Times of Paul McCartney and Dark Horse: The Private Life of George Harrison. He can be heard on the Westwood One Radio Network and has written and produced over 700 original spoken-word albums and video documentaries on various aspects of popular culture. He is also a well known movie actor.

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Frederick Douglas with many depths

This is great autobiography. I learned a lot of things about Douglas that I didn't know about before. Public schools was not necessarily encouraging to anyone to learn more about him.

Yet, this was great book. Considering the times that Douglas lived in.

Story about a Black American

Mister Douglass stood up as a highly intelligent man that over come the horror of slavery and unjust and rise to be very important American and help elevate other black men and women to over come all the horror that one has push to their limit to do better for themselves and be an examples for other.