Frederick Douglass (ca. 1817–1895) entkam der Sklaverei im US-Bundesstaat Maryland und wurde ein prominenter Anti-Sklaverei-Aktivist, Politiker und Schriftsteller. Seine erste Autobiographie »Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave« (1845) wurde ein Bestseller und wird bis heute viel gelesen. Es folgten »My Bondage and Freedom« (1855) und »Life and Times of Frederick Douglass« (1881)..
Hans-Christian Oeser, geb. 1950, ist freier Übersetzer und hat für Reclam bereits u. a. Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf und George Orwell ins Deutsche übertragen. 2020 erhielt er den Straelener Übersetzerpreis der Kunststiftung NRW..
Hannah Spahn ist Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik der Universität Potsdam.
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
'I was born in Tuckahoe I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant.'
Thus begins the autobiography of Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) who was born into slavery in Maryland and after his escape to Massachusetts in 1838 became an ardent abolitionist and campaigner for women's rights. His Narrative, which became an instant bestseller on publication in 1845, describes his life as a slave, the cruelty he suffered at the hands of his masters, his struggle to educate himself and his fight for freedom. Passionately written, often using striking biblical imagery, the Narrative came to assume epic proportions as a founding anti-slavery text in which Douglass carefully crafted both his life story and his persona.
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Thus begins the autobiography of Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) who was born into slavery in Maryland and after his escape to Massachusetts in 1838 became an ardent abolitionist and campaigner for women's rights. His Narrative, which became an instant bestseller on publication in 1845, describes his life as a slave, the cruelty he suffered at the hands of his masters, his struggle to educate himself and his fight for freedom. Passionately written, often using striking biblical imagery, the Narrative came to assume epic proportions as a founding anti-slavery text in which Douglass carefully crafted both his life story and his persona.
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