Two magazine pieces. In ‘My Escape from Slavery’, written for the Century in 1881, Douglass at last tells how he got out of Maryland in 1838, dressed as a sailor and carrying borrowed papers; in ‘Reconstruction’, he presses the nation to secure the vote and full citizenship for the freed people after the Civil War.
A quick introduction to Douglass’s prose for readers who want to begin with something short. Download the free EPUB.