
Book
The Heroic Slave
Frederick Douglass
Start Publishing LLC · Paperback · March 15, 2013
Reading lane: Black Historical Fiction
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Who It's For
Book Details
- Authors
- Frederick Douglass
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- March 15, 2013
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Black Historical Fiction · Civil War Era
- Reading lane
- Black Historical Fiction
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Publisher Categories
Black Historical Fiction
About This Book
The Heroic Slave was Frederick Douglass' only piece of fiction. He wrote it in response to the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society's request for a submission to be included in their anthology Autographs for Freedom. The Heroic Slave is a retelling of an actual rebellion led by Madison Washington on the slave ship Creole. Douglass shows how the rebellion is part of a revolution and therefore fundamentally American.
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