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Has anyone here read Frederick Douglas's autoboigraphy? The man was brilliant and self taught! Self taught in a time when he could have lost his life for just learning how to read. It makes you wonder how many more like him were snuffed out because of slavery
Is that a rather short biography? I think I read part of it in college and was quite impressed. I recall that he was briefly depicted in the Civil War movie Glory. He's a good figure to study as he really rose from the bottom to great heights.
It is short. It covers his life up to 1846 or there abouts. I beleive he wrote another later in life, I would like to read that as well.
I have a copy of his autobiography here at the house somewhere. I think I'll dig it out and put it up for auction on Gunsandall.com. I have briefly scanned the pages, but it's not an easy read. It's a short work, but as I said, it's written in that distinct 19th-century prose that is highlighted with big words and literary verbiage. If you can take the time to sit through it, you should, and I need to.
