Publisher's Synopsis
One of history's most famous andeloquent narrators, tells his ownstory, in his own words.Born as a slave, and forbidden toread and write, Douglass managedto educate himself, and afternineteen years of forced labor, escapes to the North, becominga voice for the oppressed and hunted.Join us for a graphic, firsthand account of the brutality of slavery, the quest for freedom, and theattainment of a drea