Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: A StrongReader Builder(TM) Classic for Dyslexic and Struggling Readers

by Frederick Douglass

Overview

This original version of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is published in Noah Text®, a proprietary evidenced-based method of presenting text. Noah Text® highlights critical word patterns to help struggling readers, striving readers, those with dyslexia, and English language-learners read with increased fluency, accuracy, and stamina.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass enables readers to visualize and feel what one young slave had to endure, eliciting true empathy and helping them understand a deeply troubling time. Frederick Douglass was born into slavery and was the victim of horrendous atrocities. In time, he discovered the value of education and taught himself to read and write. Through sheer will and determination, he managed to become a free man and eloquently share his story. This edition of his story, written in 1845, is rendered in a way that enables readers to observe critical word and sound patterns, thereby increasing its readability.

Douglass was an orator, writer, public servant and political activist who played a key role in the abolitionist movement. His narrative should be required reading in every secondary school program. ​(Note to educators: This unique print presentation enables students to see critical word patterns that make the text more accessible and help them improve their reading skills. Thus, this book can be used as a stand-alone or in conjunction with audio support for multisensory, immersive learning.)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781956944174
Publisher:	Noah Text LLC
Publication date:	08/20/2023
Series:	Strongreader Builder(tm) Classics
Pages:	202
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.63(d)
Lexile:	1010L (what's this?)

About the Author

Frederick Douglass was a writer, orator, abolitionist, and statesman whose given name was Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. Born a slave in Maryland in 1817, he managed to escape and went on to become a leader of the abolitionist movement in New York and Massachusetts. He became famous for his antislavery writings and speeches and was a living counterargument against the belief that slaves could not function as full-fledged citizens. Even Northerners had trouble believing that this great writer and public speaker had been born into slavery. Douglass described his experiences as a slave in his Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, published in 1845. This bestselling book, which was followed 10 years later by a second book entitled My Bondage and My Freedom, helped promote the abolitionists' cause. After the Civil War, Douglass was a strong advocate for the rights of freed slaves. His last autobiographical book, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, was initially published in 1881 and revised a year later. Throughout the Reconstruction era, Douglass continued speaking and advocating for voting rights, not only for freed slaves but also for women. In 1872 he was nominated, without his permission, to run for Vice President of the United States as Victoria Woodhull's running mate on the Equal Rights Party ticket. He never acknowledged that he had been nominated, nor did he campaign. That same year, he was presidential elector-at-large for New York State, taking that state's electoral votes to Washington, D.C. After Douglass's home in Rochester, NY, burned down in June of 1872, he moved to Washington, DC. At the 1888 Republican National Convention, Douglass became the first African-American to receive a roll call vote from a major political party for President of the United States. On February 20, 1895, Douglass attended a National Council of Women meeting in Washington, where he was brought to the platform and received a standing ovation. Later that same day, after he had gone home, Douglass died of a massive heart attack at the age of 77.

Hometown:

Tuckahoe, Maryland

Date of Birth:

1818

Date of Death:

February 20, 1895

Place of Death:

Washington, D.C.