Frederick Douglass, Alyssa Harad, Cynthia Johnson - Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave

Pros: Amazing portrayal of slavery, courage, and hope.

Cons: Douglas is slightly removed from his writing

Review: It is amazing what we as a culture take for granted today. I am always surprised when I read literature of this magnitude and what one people have done to another people over the course of our history.

Frederick Douglas after becoming a free...

Pros: Portrays Slaverly Like No Other, The Moral

Cons: None

The Bottom Line: An excellent book that portrays slaverly like no other, so realistically.

Review: Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass is one of the most powerful and unique stories about slavery in literature of the 19th century, and in literature of today. The cruel face of slavery is presented to the reader not through the narrative of the...

Pros: Truthful, easy reading

Cons: none

Review: This novel written by an American slave, Frederick Douglass depicts the life of an African American slave in the mid nineteenth century. Frederick tells about being brutally beaten by his masters for no good reason and if they had a reason it usually...

Pros: Very deep, thought provoking, straightforward, told with a passion

Cons: no real cons, it was extremely awesome

Review: The Real Freedom

In his Narrative, Frederick Douglass gave a powerfully detailed description of his slavery and, eventually, his freedom. Douglass wrote in vivid detail of his keen thoughts and his inhumane masters throughout the novel. One...

Pros: A unique and important perspective on American history

Cons: Some of the prose is a little dated, unnecessarily slow going

The Bottom Line: An important and powerful document of American history

Review: Frederick Douglass's narrative is the work of a man who realized that education and freedom were one and the same. It is the story of a born slave who used willpower, guile and bargaining to learn how to read and gain a perspective on his condition. It...

Pros: First hand account of slavery by an actual slave.

Cons: That the institution of slavery ever existed in this country.

Review: Note: This review is a copy of my book review for Hist1301 class. It is a review of the book, and a summary of the events that occured within. I am posting it on epinions because I recieved a 95% for it, and hopefully this review can help...

Pros: very informative

Cons: very depressing

Review: According to archeologists, slavery dates back to 2000 B. C. among the ancient people of the Babylonian empire. Men and women have enslaved one another for reasons of punishment or as a response to the demand for men and women to serve as...

Pros: Good form

Cons: Too general, but necessary for the times.

Review: This book, reads as fiction. The story is so horrific, and compelling that it is hard to believe it true. But it is. The novel, A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, is one of the best autobiographies I have read in my lifetime. He begins...

Pros: True tale of a slave

Cons: Awkward

Review: Slavery is part of America's history that many would prefer to forget, but the haunting details of this evil institution are revived in this personal account.

The title of this book was not deceiving, as it plainly was the life of Frederick...

Pros: Book of Historic Importance, Convicing Rhetoric

Cons: Maybe biased, Victorian unlike modern prose

Review: Some may have read this work in high school or college. This work belongs to the genre of abolition literature, literary works produced for abolition of slavery. This Narrative and Uncle Tom’s Cabin are probably by far the best known. The former is...