Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

This is the heart-breaking first-hand account by an American slave. Douglass was a wonderful orator and his writing sounds like a well-written speech. I look forward to reading his other autobiographies.

I enjoyed listening to Walter Covell narrate Frederick Douglass' life story. I was interesting and fact laden.

I bought this because it was assigned reading for my history class, however it has led me to the rest of the works of Frederick Douglass. Probably falls under the heading of the best book I've gotten from Audible yet.

It was an historical account of slavery.

Very emotive and compelling.

There were parts that made me cry because I know that they really did happen.

Very Very long introduction. This was an informative book, however, so much of the story had to be "left out" because of the serious repercussions to certain people helping the slaves at that time. Consequently, I never got emotionally involved with this man as a person. For example, his wife just "shows up" and he gets married to her. I was thinking "his wife??? when had he ever mentioned a woman that he loved? Now he's getting married?
(I would recommend the book "incidents in the life of a slave girl" which really had me by the heart.)
This book is a litany of horrific torture of slaves, but/and little else to the story. There was such a sense of hope in the other book, and it drove me to fully research the woman Harriet Jacobs.
In this book, I just felt depressed and felt, yes, an important book especially at the time of this writing, but I could have done without listening to it.