Product Details
- * Pub. Date: December 1996
- * Weight : 0.4900
- * Dimensions : 0.4" H x 8.32" L x 5.18" w
- * Formats : No
- * ISBN : 393969665
- * Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
- * Book Theme : Cultural Heritage
- * Book Type : Trade Paperback
Description
In addition to its far-reaching impact on the antislavery movement in the United States and abroad, Douglass's fugitive slave narrative won recognition for its literary excellence, which has since earned it a place among the classics of nineteenth-century American autobiography. This Norton Critical Edition reprints the 1845 first edition of Douglass's compelling work. Explanatory annotations accompany the text. A rich selection of "Contexts" provides the reader with contemporary perspectives. Included are
