A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period.

Along with Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass was one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th Century in the United States.