![]() ![]() While in Britain and Ireland, he gained supporters who paid $710.96 to purchase his emancipation from his legal owner. After publication, he sailed to England and Ireland for two years in fear of being recaptured by his owner in the United States. Within four months of this publication, five thousand copies were sold. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th century in the United States. ![]() Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. In very good condition with rubbing and wear to the extremities and some loss to the spine, contemporary ownership signature. Small octavo, original brown cloth stamped in blind with gilt title to the front panel, frontispiece portrait of Douglass, green endpapers. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.īoston: Published at the Anti-Slavery Office, 1845.įirst edition of this treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass. ![]()
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