Tag: Frederick Douglass

• Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Books I’ve (Shamelessly & Proudly) Written In

  Happy Tuesday! This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) asks us to share our unpopular bookish opinions. However, I thought I would hone in on one unpopular bookish opinion and share ten examples of it instead. Perhaps one of my most controversial book habits is that I often annotate and…

  holly

  June 11, 2019

  Top Ten Tuesday

  Annotating, Beloved, Emily Bronte, Frederick Douglass, Great Expectations, Jane Austen, Joan Didion, Mrs. Dalloway, My Antonia, Paper Towns, Persuasion, The Great Gatsby, The Year of Magical Thinking, To the Lighthouse, Top Ten Tuesday, Wuthering Heights

• FREDERICK DOUGLASS by William S. McFeely

  I’ve been fascinated by the life and writing of Frederick Douglass ever since reading his autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) in my Introduction to Literature class during my very first semester of college. Born into slavery, Douglass eventually escaped to the North, became a free man, and rose to be a prolific orator…

  holly

  March 15, 2018

  Books

  American History, Book Review, books, Civil War, Frederick Douglass, History, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, William S. McFeely

• THE NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE by Frederick Douglass

  “You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.” Out of all the novels, short stories, and poems we read in my Introduction to Literature class, I chose to write my final paper on Frederick Douglass’ memoir, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An…

  holly

  March 7, 2016

  Books, Read for English Class

  Book Review, books, chiasmus, Frederick Douglass, Memoir, Slavery