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Escaping the sickness of slavery

Escaping the sickness of slavery

Review of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas: An American Slave by Frederick Douglass

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Rob Crawford
Jun 15, 2023
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This is memoir of the growth of an individual from the most brutish of slave lives to a free man who took pride in his work and his mind. While told as a narrative, this book is actually an essay on personal struggle and development: to respect himself, to change his circumstances, to be re-born. At that, it is extremely powerful and moving. The reader …

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