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The self-made man: on the long and eventful life of Frederick Douglass

• tomcam 8y ago
  Amazing dude, and in my mind one of the great definers of what it means to be an American. You can’t go wrong just reading his autobiography, which is on project Gutenberg. It feels like a novel and is way less boring than many of his contemporaries could muster.
  • alexpetralia 8y ago
    Here's the link for anyone interested: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23/23-h/23-h.htm http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23/23-h/23-h.htm
    • js2 8y ago
      Alternate format: http://www.slaverystories.org/frederick-douglass/0 http://www.slaverystories.org/frederick-douglass/0
  • gadders 8y ago
    I loved this graphic novel treatment that Art of Manliness did for a short excerpt of his autobiography: "You have seen how a man was made a slave. You shall see how a slave was made a man." https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/an-original-aom-comic-frederick-douglass-how-a-slave-was-made-a-man/ https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/an-original-aom-comi...
  • freejak 8y ago
    An American and more. His struggle against oppression transcends nations. We're all slaves to one thing or another. To first be cognizant of the Stockholm trap and then overcome is what his story represents to me.