... the north and lecture audiences on the society's behalf. Douglass soon became the leading black abolitionist and one of the most famous public speakers of the time. Some people thought Douglass's speeches were made up of lies. So, to put the people who opposed him the most to Silence, he decided to write his life story, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, which was published in May of 1845. The book became a best seller in the North. Despite his success with the book, Frederick ... was still a runaway slave. He decided to travel to England where he hoped to win Europe's support...

• Word Count: 1793
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... text of its kind, the Narrative of William W. Brown characterizes in its subject matter and develops the basic plot structure of the slave narrative. Though in many ways Brown's story may be read as a prototype of the variety in which he wrote, his manner of telling that story is more distinctively his own. Compared to the highly self-conscious rhetorical flourishes of Frederick Douglass's narrative, Brown's decidedly understated, restrained, almost expressionless, manner of recounting his life seems innocent. The ... introduction to Brown's Narrative ... ...

• Word Count: 1550
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... New York, where her parents were slaves. Her first language was Dutch, and she would speak with an accent all her life. One of the formative events of her early childhood was witnessing her parents' grief over the loss of children who had been sold away. When she was nine Isabella herself was sold, and she was sold several more times in ... all beings lived in him as "fishes in the sea." In the winter of 1843 Sojourner Truth moved to the Northampton Industrial Association, another utopian community, where she lived until 1846. There she met important members of the abolitionist movement, ...

• Word Count: 1430
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School