Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, credited to Frederick Douglass, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Life and Times of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass. Read in English by Lee Smalley Frederick Douglass published his highly acclaimed third autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, in 1881 and revised it in 1892. The emancipation of American slaves during and following the American Civil War enabled him to relate in this volume more details of his life as a slave and his escape from slavery than he could in his two previous autobiographies, which would have put him and his family in danger. It is the only Douglass autobiography to discuss his life during and after the Civil War, his encounters with several American presidents including Lincoln and Garfield, his account of the ill-fated "Freedman's Bank", and his service as the United States Marshall of the District of Columbia and as U. S. Minister to Haiti. This masterfully written book is all the more remarkable because it is the product of one who as a slave was denied the right to any schooling. ~ Adapted from Wikipedia by Lee Smalley

Recording facts

• Recording title: Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
• Author credits: Frederick Douglass
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 55
• Listed recording duration: 23:04:35

Catalogue topics

• slavery
• American history
• frederick douglass
• american slavery

Opening tracks: first 24 of 55

1. 00 - Introduction — 20:28
2. 01 - Author's Birth — 5:52
3. 02 - Removal from Grandmother's — 8:50
4. 03 - Troubles of Childhood — 6:50
5. 04 - A General Survey of the Slave Plantation — 19:02
6. 05 - A Slaveholder's Character — 11:07
7. 06 - A Child's Reasoning — 17:07
8. 07 - Luxuries at the Great House — 16:10
9. 08 - Characteristics of Overseers — 10:16
10. 09 - Change of Location — 14:08
11. 10 - Learning to Read — 10:00
12. 11 - Growing in Knowledge — 15:35
13. 12 - Religious Nature Awakened — 15:30
14. 13 - The Vicissitudes of Slave Life — 18:01
15. 14 - Experience in St. Michaels — 26:59
16. 15 - Covey, the Negro Breaker — 29:23
17. 16 - Another Pressure of the Tyrant's Vice — 16:12
18. 17 - The Last Flogging — 25:54
19. 18 - New Relations and Duties — 22:06
20. 19 - The Runaway Plot — 51:27
21. 20 - Apprenticeship Life — 26:58
22. 21 - Escape from Slavery, Part 1 — 16:33
23. 22 - Escape from Slavery, Part 2 — 11:30
24. 23 - Life as a Freeman — 31:51

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