Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

ISBN: 978-1-933486-00-0

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A powerful testament to the human spirit  —  the life of Frederick Douglass is presented in a new Core Classics Plus study edition especially prepared for young readers. To the classic text we’ve added lavish illustrations, historical backgrounds, vocabulary in context, lots of cross curricular activities, writing extensions, projects and much, much more. This primary source material is splendidly suitable for American history, social studies, and literature classes.

Excerpt from Chapter 8

We were all ranked together at the valuation. Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine. There were horses and men, cattle and women, pigs and children, all holding the same rank in the scale of being, and were all subjected to the same narrow examination. Silvery-headed age and sprightly youth, maids and matrons, had to undergo the same indelicate inspection. At this moment, I saw more clearly than ever the brutalizing effects of slavery upon both slave and slaveholder.