Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Rating

7.0

The Pequod Review:

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is the first of Douglass's three memoirs, as he describes his life from birth until his escape to the North as a free man. His passionate and descriptive prose has a certain type of beauty, but the incidents are described in such sermonic language that they sometimes seem apocryphal or exaggerated.