Starting on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, where the boy Frederick never learned his birth date, Shirley Graham follows Douglass through slavery, his escape north, the abolitionist platform, and family life with his children Rosetta and Lewis. She writes in scenes and dialogue, drawing closely on Douglass’s own autobiographies.
A warm, dramatised life of Douglass from 1947 for readers who prefer story to footnotes. Download the free EPUB.