6/9/2023 0 Comments Douglass slave narrative![]() ![]() Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, 1845 In this passage, he describes a turning point in his life after a violent fight with a “slavebreaker” named Mr. This narrative, published in 1845, was the first of three autobiographies Douglass wrote. ![]() The best known of the slave narratives was that of the abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Slave narratives, autobiographical accounts of enslaved Africans, served the cause of abolition by visualizing the experience of slavery in a way easily understood by those far removed from plantation life.
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