Narrative of the life of Frederick DouglassNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (in English, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave) is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by the African American orator and former slave Frederick Douglass, during his stay in Lynn, Massachusetts. It is generally considered the most famous of a number of accounts written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes