TY - BOOK AU - Douglass,Frederick AU - Andrews,William L. AU - McFeely,William Shield TI - Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass: authoritative text, contexts, criticism T2 - A Norton critical edition SN - 0393969665 (pbk.) AV - E449.D75 D68 1997 PY - 1997/// CY - New York, NY. PB - W.W. Norton & Co. KW - Douglass, Frederick, KW - African American abolitionists KW - Biography KW - Abolitionists KW - United States N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-188) N2 - An autobiographical account of a childhood and youth spent in slavery by a man who became a great abolitionist and leader of anti-slavery activity. Upon its publication in 1845, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, became an immediate best-seller. In addition to its far-reaching impact on the antislavery movement in the United States and abroad, Douglass's fugitive slave narrative earned it a place among the classics of nineteenth-century American autobiography ER -