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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
by Frederick Douglass
Douglass's 1845 account of slavery, learning to read in secret, and escape. The foundational American self-education story and a masterpiece of rhetoric.
Read it if…
you want the original testament to literacy as liberation.
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Skip it if…
there is no good reason.
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Three things you will actually use
- Knowledge unfits a man to be a slave.
- Self-education is resistance.
- Speak.
Do this first
Read the chapter on how he learned to read.
Our verdict
Literacy as liberation.
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