nos habla de su propia experiencia vital, pero no lo hace por soberbia o porque estime que su vida es especialmente interesante, sino para ayudar a otros seres humanos que siguen siendo esclavos mientras él ha conseguido, después de muchos avatares, alcanzar la libertad. Los relatos de antiguos esclavos fueron un género literario que proliferó en Estados Unidos en el siglo XIX, al auspicio del movimiento abolicionista, que intentaba probar...
Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey (Frederick Douglass) was born a slave in Talbot County, Maryland. He took the name Douglass after escaping from the South in 1838.
As a leader in the abolitionist movement, Douglass was famed for his eloquent yet incisive political writing. And, like his near-contemporary, Booker T. Washington, understood the central importance of education in improving the lives of African Americans, and was therefore an early proponent...
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