February 2: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

Written in the late 1800s, this is the autobiography of the famous abolitionist and statesman who escaped to the north after 21 years of enslavement.

Born into a life of bondage, Frederick Douglass secretly taught himself to read and write. It was a crime punishable by death, but it resulted in one of the most eloquent indictments of slacery ever recorded.

Douglass's gripping narrative takes us into the fields, cabins and manors of pre-Civil War plantations in the South and reveals the daily terrors he suffered as a slave.

Written more than a century and a half ago by an African-American who went on to become a famous orator, U.S. minister to Haiti and leader of his people, Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave is a timeless classic that still speaks directly to our age. It is a record of savagery and inhumanity that goes far to explain why America still suffers from the great injustices of he past.

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