Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was born as a slave, who fell into the hands of several owners in his youth. He eventually, after changing hands several times, got lucky with one of their wives, who treated him well and taught him to read and write. Eventually, he managed to escape slavery and became an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. Frederick Douglass became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York; gaining note for his anti-slavery writin and becoming a friend of Abraham Lincoln.