Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was the best-known African American reformer of the nineteenth century, which fought to end slavery within the United States prior to the Civil War. He was born in 1818, in Tuckahoe, Maryland, as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. Douglass changed his name in 1838, after escaping slavery to conceal his true identity.
In the Narrative, Douglass recalls his childhood and early adulthood. Growing up in the 1820s, Douglass spent the first seven years of his life on the Eastern Shore plantation of Colonel Edward Lloyd. When Douglass was about eight years old, he was sold to Hugh Auld, in which he moved...