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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave

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Frederick Douglass Biography

Introduction
Early Life
Learning to Read
Resistance
Escape from Slavery
Freedom
The Years Preceding and During the Civil War
The Post-Civil War Years

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Garrison's Preface
Letter From Wendell Phillips, Esq.
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Appendix

Character List

Critical Essays

"The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro"
The Autobiography as Genre, as Authentic Text
Slavery as a Mythologized Institution
Slavery in the United States
The Fugitive Slave Act
Slavery in Maryland
Douglass' Canonical Status and the Heroic Tale
Douglass' Other Autobiographies

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Jack and Nell . . . Tony, Doll, and Sam names representative of slaves.

Jacob Jepson a rich slave owner, a neighbor of Colonel Lloyd's.

jargon idioms; words used within a subculture.

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) American abolitionist and poet. Douglass quotes from Whittier's poem "The Farewell: Of a Virginia Slave Mother to her Daughter Sold into Southern Bondage."

larboard the left-hand side of a ship, facing forward.

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