Building a Nation of Readers

Frederick Douglass

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Excerpts from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (The Anti-Slavery Office, 1849)
Title page -- page 32 -- page 33 -- page 42 -- page 43

Letter from Annie Douglass to Frederick Douglass about learning German and about John Brown, 7 December 1859

Introduction by Adrienne Cannon
Read by Norman Middleton

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