His third and fullest autobiography retells a childhood on a Maryland plantation, the secret struggle to learn to read and, for the first time, the way he escaped. It then carries the story far beyond the earlier narratives: the antislavery lecture circuit, his own newspaper, meetings with Lincoln, the Civil War and the long fight over what freedom would mean afterwards.
Distinct from the shorter Narrative of 1845, this is the book for readers who want the whole arc of Douglass’s life. Download the free EPUB.