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Frederick Douglass 5 free books by Frederick Douglass. 4 you can read right here.
Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History
My Bondage and My Freedom
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Also by Frederick Douglass: read here Three addresses on the relations subsisting between the white and colored people of the United States
Why is the Negro Lynched?
John Brown: An Address at the 14th Anniversary of Storer College
Abolition Fanaticism in New York Speech of a Runaway Slave from Baltimore, at an Abolition Meeting in New York, Held May 11, 1847
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From Project Gutenberg e-text #23 (public domain in the USA).
It was the blood-stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery, through which I was about to pass.
Chapter I Read in context → Copy Share The work of instructing my dear fellow-slaves was the sweetest engagement with which I was ever blessed.
Chapter X Read in context → Copy Share From Project Gutenberg e-text #202 (public domain in the USA).
I was broken in body, soul and spirit.
XV. Covey, the Negro Breaker Read in context → Copy Share From Project Gutenberg e-text #71893 (public domain in the USA).
I was nothing before; I was a man now.
XVII. THE LAST FLOGGING Read in context → Copy Share I was a changed being after that fight.
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