Download American Legends: The Life of Frederick Douglass AudioBook Free
A whole lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most important results, but how a lot of the forest is lost for the trees and shrubs? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get swept up on the lives of America's most significant women and men in enough time it takes to finish a commute. And they can do so while learning interesting facts long ignored or never known. While using possible exemption of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., no African American has been more instrumental in the struggle for minorities' civil rights in the United States than Frederick Douglass (1818 - 1895), an American cultural reformer, orator, article writer, and statesman. His list of achievements would be impressive enough even without taking into account the fact that he was born into slavery. It's believed his father was a white man, even perhaps his get good at Aaron Anthony. When Douglass was about 12, his slaveowner's wife, Sophia Auld, started out teaching him the alphabet in defiance of the South's regulations against teaching slaves how to read. When her partner Hugh found out, he was furious, reminding her that if the slave discovered to read, he would become dissatisfied with his condition and desire liberty. Those words would confirm prophetic. Douglass is observed as saying that "knowledge is the pathway from slavery to liberty". He got that advice to center, teaching himself how to read and write with his knowledge of the alphabet. On September 3, 1838, Douglass efficiently escaped slavery, vacationing by fishing boat to Delaware, Philadelphia, and lastly NY, all in the period of your day. Douglass found a "...new world had opened after [him]".
