Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass (Audiobook) (1845)

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  • @sincereflowers3218
    @sincereflowers3218 Рік тому +492

    Collected from the comments, pinning might help:
    Chapter 1 26:05
    Chapter 2 37:20
    Chapter 3 48:42
    Chapter 4 56:32
    Chapter 5 1:05:05
    Chapter 6 1:14:04
    Chapter 7 1:21:06
    Chapter 8 1:34:06
    Chapter 9 1:44:42
    Chapter 10 1:55:40
    Chapter 11 3:02:04
    Chapter 12 3:29:58

  • @hannahhayes
    @hannahhayes 3 дні тому +1

    Thank you so much for posting this! I have dyslexia, and reading for long periods of times is very overwhelming and exhausting. This was a big help!

  • @_unov31
    @_unov31 9 місяців тому +17

    Thank you for uploading an audiobook, this a required reading for me and I don’t have time to read it

  • @thecloudygames
    @thecloudygames Місяць тому +4

    Thank you for making this, I have problems reading books but I have a midterm and this book is required to be read for it. You helped me so much!! :D

  • @carterfogarty4875
    @carterfogarty4875 11 місяців тому +80

    Exam on this tmr, haven't read it yet, this is coming in clutch, just sat down and listened to the whole thing

  • @taebond007
    @taebond007 21 день тому +6

    I love you, Frederick Douglas you are a hero. You are a legend. You are strong. You are powerful. You are strength. You became a fugitive. You were intelligent, witty charming you endured so much pain you saw so much and yet you prevailed you didn’t know your mother, you met her four or five times, what strength you are you are love. I love you.💜✨💪🏽🙏🏽👆🏽💜✨

  • @patriciaingraldi4719
    @patriciaingraldi4719 2 місяці тому +3

    This is my first time reading/listening to this incredible man's journey to freedom and I am moved beyond words. The narration was excellent and the writing of Frederick Douglass is certainly an historical treasure to be remembered always. It was a terrible part of American history.

  • @jess1245
    @jess1245 7 місяців тому +2

    This was beautifully written and I really enjoyed how the words flowed and felt like a story and conversation
    However every hard R word drop would actually take me out and caught me off guard every time 😭

  • @SithLadyDarhVamp
    @SithLadyDarhVamp Рік тому +57

    This is probably one of the best books I've been made to "read" as part of university course dictations. So interesting and horrifying all at once.

  • @davidmartinez-lr5wi
    @davidmartinez-lr5wi Рік тому +34

    BIG TIP: read this book a few days before your test read one half one day and the other the other day I’m reading this 8 hours before my test and it sucks 😂

  • @Michael-hw5wk
    @Michael-hw5wk 4 місяці тому +13

    I read this in jail and enjoyed it a great deal. He was a slave quite a long time before he finally decided to make a break for it. He even beat up one of his "masters" (who was absolutely terrible). He would see boats in the harbor and wonder what it would be like to be on one heading north. He once said, "I spend my life praying to God to set me free, but nothing happened until I prayed with my legs). I believe he was also married to a white lady (if I remember correctly) which was quite progressive for the time.

    • @MasonHenning-h4k
      @MasonHenning-h4k Місяць тому +1

      What did you do to get in jail.

    • @neurodivergentreadz
      @neurodivergentreadz 16 днів тому

      @@MasonHenning-h4k He was taken there from Africa for no crime at all

  • @boldandcourageous8314
    @boldandcourageous8314 Рік тому +16

    The appendix is a great summary of the American Slave System and slave owners. This was an excellent book.

  • @TroyBrownTV
    @TroyBrownTV Рік тому +71

    This is unfathomable. His writing is beyond belief.

  • @michellegutierrezz
    @michellegutierrezz Рік тому +27

    Thank you for uploading this!🤍

  • @Gabo_YT
    @Gabo_YT 3 місяці тому +72

    Summer reading💀

  • @lifesshort9524
    @lifesshort9524 Рік тому +8

    John Locke's theory of tabula rasa, or the "blank slate," posits that every individual is born with a mind devoid of innate knowledge, and that experiences and perceptions inscribe knowledge and understanding onto this mental canvas. While Locke's theory aptly characterizes the cognitive development of those born outside the shackles of slavery, a poignant divergence emerges when considering children born into bondage. In their case, it is the dearth of experiences that etches the contours of their cognitive landscape.
    Frederick Douglass's vivid narrative serves as a compelling testament to this nuanced interpretation. Deprived of the fundamental markers of childhood, such as birthdays, Douglass shares a palpable longing for the simple knowledge of his own age, which serves as a poignant reminder of the stark void in his formative experiences. As he laments, "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" (Douglass 12). This enforced ignorance, far from being incidental, becomes a deliberate act of erasure, rendering the enslaved not only bereft of their autonomy but also robbing them of the very fabric of their identity.
    Furthermore, Douglass's narrative unveils the heart-wrenching rupture of the maternal bond within the crucible of slavery. The forced separation of a child from their mother, a practice wielded with brutal efficiency, serves a dual purpose: to thwart the natural affection between parent and child, and to dampen the child's capacity to forge emotional connections. As Douglass poignantly observes, "The child is placed under the care of an old woman, too old for field labor. For what this separation is done, I do not know, unless it be to hinder the development of the child’s affection toward its mother, and to blunt and destroy the natural affection of the mother for the child" (Douglass 12). Here, the enforced alienation becomes the chisel that sculpts the contours of an individual's emotional landscape.
    Perhaps most heart-rending is Douglass's poignant recounting of his mother's passing, which underscores the brutalizing impact of slavery on familial bonds. Estranged from her nurturing presence, his bereavement is a stark testament to the obliteration of the natural affections that should have bound them. He reflects, "Never having enjoyed, to any considerable extent, her soothing presence, her tender and watchful care, I received the tidings of her death with much the same emotions I should have probably felt at the death of a stranger" (Douglass 13). In this wrenching admission, Douglass reveals how the very essence of familial connection, the cornerstone of human experience, was systematically dismantled.
    In conclusion, Frederick Douglass's narrative lays bare the profound implications of Locke's theory of tabula rasa within the crucible of slavery. Far from being a passive receptacle waiting to be inscribed, the enslaved mind is actively shaped by the cruel negations of experience. Through the deliberate erasure of birthdays, the severance of maternal bonds, and the callous disregard for familial ties, slavery does not merely blot out the canvas of a child's mind, but it etches upon it a harrowing tale of absence and deprivation. Douglass's narrative, therefore, serves as a poignant testament to the resilience of the human spirit, which, even in the direst of circumstances, seeks to reclaim its agency and reconstruct its own narrative. By: Shermarke Mohomed

  • @Love-me-cookies-1-2-3
    @Love-me-cookies-1-2-3 Рік тому +21

    This was an amazing book and I’m glad I found the audiobook which helped me a lot thank you 😊

  • @mufasasdaughter4831
    @mufasasdaughter4831 3 дні тому +1

    How a human being could do this to another and then call themselves "Christians" and "civilized" is totally beyond comprehension.

  • @lisasmith767
    @lisasmith767 12 днів тому +1

    Parts of this book bring to mind the film 12 Years a Slave.

  • @thebookoutt
    @thebookoutt Місяць тому

    Thank you so much! This made my class reading so much better.

  • @garrytipler6987
    @garrytipler6987 2 роки тому +19

    One of the greatest Blackman we ever had

    • @ghy518
      @ghy518 Рік тому +8

      One of the ethnic superlatives UA-cam comments ever had

    • @stephmejia5005
      @stephmejia5005 Рік тому

      @@TVClaireBearhe said one of

    • @usgamechamp1091
      @usgamechamp1091 2 місяці тому

      I am surprised he was so smart but didn't know his own black people were the ones who sold him!

    • @MiguelSantos-ic6ty
      @MiguelSantos-ic6ty Місяць тому +1

      One of the greatest men*

  • @mukundagirisadagopan8662
    @mukundagirisadagopan8662 Рік тому +35

    This book should be made required reading for every student during the 10, 11, or 12th grade.

    • @marydiaz246
      @marydiaz246 5 місяців тому +4

      I have to read it now since I am going into honors English for 9th grade. It is still a good book though.

    • @akane_-td3mq
      @akane_-td3mq 2 місяці тому +3

      I am reading it in AP Lang in 11th grade

    • @Romenpunch7
      @Romenpunch7 2 місяці тому +1

      Reading for Ap English

    • @RealJefferyDahmer
      @RealJefferyDahmer Місяць тому

      @@akane_-td3mqam to! good luck on the test on the test in may

  • @boldandcourageous8314
    @boldandcourageous8314 Рік тому +8

    CH 1 director here.
    Boy these slave masters were evil 😈

    • @user-wb7nv9ht1g
      @user-wb7nv9ht1g 2 місяці тому

      Lots of people are/were, including the people that originally sold his people into slavery. Unfortunately slavery stll exists and has for as long as people have existed.

  • @roberth1471
    @roberth1471 Рік тому +10

    The saddest part about this book is that before his words were even to be considered he had to find “white” to preface his words and give credence to them. Like what he went through isn’t enough to make it worth while…it had to be “white approved” first.

  • @Allhoney33
    @Allhoney33 Місяць тому +2

    Jesus what species are we dealing with here? Killing, beating people to death because they made mistakes!!! This is really sad and disturbing.

    • @NoixNoir-gu4fd
      @NoixNoir-gu4fd 25 днів тому

      West Side of Europe was reppin hard those days

  • @drakeeblis1788
    @drakeeblis1788 3 місяці тому +3

    The genius that was Frederick Douglass is absolutely unfathomable by today's standards he was the first true absolute genius of the black community...‼️‼️‼️
    BTW I m a 68 year old white male....

    • @user-wb7nv9ht1g
      @user-wb7nv9ht1g 2 місяці тому

      Im sure you could consider others before him to be geniuses.

    • @drakeeblis1788
      @drakeeblis1788 2 місяці тому

      @@user-wb7nv9ht1g why don't you try saying something that actually makes sense 🤔

  • @victorbabbitt8988
    @victorbabbitt8988 Рік тому +12

    Powerful

  • @emilylepich7981
    @emilylepich7981 Рік тому +73

    who else is here for challenge 1

  • @austinblack1998
    @austinblack1998 5 місяців тому +1

    I believe that we all can gain some true knowledge and an understanding as to are own ways in which we have slaved and enslaved those from which were to be the unfortunate and were closest round, and also to are selves efficient in ways of doubt and negativity capable only tobe amount able, only fears insecurities into selfish mutilation. This has surely made me more conscientious of my capabilities and responsibilities to first myself,never stop being who I'am. But also to everyone around to reflect and bring about more of those of us who are capable and inspire to speak out. Truly and sincerely Le'Anna E. Leahy❤ please read listen and stand-up we all together can make changes to make a difference thank you Dave Chappell ❤❤❤😊

  • @lixinglan10
    @lixinglan10 9 місяців тому

    Thank you for this!

  • @browngoldthread1239
    @browngoldthread1239 Місяць тому

    Thank you so much ❤

  • @BoxingGOATEdits
    @BoxingGOATEdits 20 днів тому +1

    every word a poem

  • @B.W.Bricks_productions
    @B.W.Bricks_productions 10 місяців тому +4

    Who's here from Challenge 1?

  • @lizzysantoyo9200
    @lizzysantoyo9200 2 роки тому +17

    37:20 Chapter 2

  • @jlnajera
    @jlnajera 2 роки тому +15

    26:05 Chapter One

    • @SimSahlstrom
      @SimSahlstrom Рік тому +1

      Thought I was listening to chapter one for 10 minuets then I saw this lol😂😂
      Thank you

  • @greenbullet1224
    @greenbullet1224 Рік тому +5

    Chapter 1 26:08

  • @JRey-re9rl
    @JRey-re9rl Рік тому

    Thank you!

  • @zee1o148
    @zee1o148 Рік тому +3

    This is so poetical

  • @Misty-q3d
    @Misty-q3d 3 дні тому

    Wow! It's hard to believe we have evolved so little 😢

  • @aidanblackwood9068
    @aidanblackwood9068 3 місяці тому

    Thank you

  • @elise.whom.has.problems
    @elise.whom.has.problems 9 днів тому

    I am dedicated to not reading a word of the book outside of class lmao

    • @elise.whom.has.problems
      @elise.whom.has.problems 4 дні тому

      Alright we starting this 1 am before the 5th hour class while doing an APUSH reading guide

  • @jailynnnoel2501
    @jailynnnoel2501 2 роки тому +3

    nice

  • @delilahgarcia7971
    @delilahgarcia7971 2 роки тому +3

    1:05:05 Chapter 5

  • @TroyBrownTV
    @TroyBrownTV Рік тому

    I might a got up from the bench and charged the floor. Real talk

  • @THETATEUMSHOW
    @THETATEUMSHOW Рік тому +2

    How do you cook macaroni and cheese 😅

  • @lookbehindyou2862
    @lookbehindyou2862 2 місяці тому +1

    30:39 pause time

  • @Booknerd270
    @Booknerd270 8 місяців тому +4

    Challenge 1 people unite 😂

  • @dory2121
    @dory2121 Рік тому +2

    3:01:20 good quote

  • @delilahgarcia7971
    @delilahgarcia7971 Рік тому +2

    Chapter 12?? 3:29:58

  • @josephsmith6777
    @josephsmith6777 2 місяці тому

    Book start at about 26 min

  • @shanicelynch
    @shanicelynch 5 місяців тому +1

    Who else is here because of Dave Chappelle?

    • @SisekoDlakavu
      @SisekoDlakavu 5 місяців тому

      I know what you're talking about - after hearing the question from the crowd person and the answer he gave, based on the crowds reaction I went straight to check it out.

    • @user-wb7nv9ht1g
      @user-wb7nv9ht1g 2 місяці тому

      Not me

  • @carlwarrenphoto
    @carlwarrenphoto 2 місяці тому

    Respect to 4th of July speech

  • @angelina9345
    @angelina9345 2 роки тому +2

    chapter 4 56:35

  • @BoxingGOATEdits
    @BoxingGOATEdits День тому

    Poor "Pick"...how could humans treat each other so horribly?

  • @delilahgarcia7971
    @delilahgarcia7971 2 роки тому +2

    56:31 chapter 4

  • @coyoteden8111
    @coyoteden8111 10 місяців тому

    Bookmark 2:33:00

  • @ElijahBullock-in8hc
    @ElijahBullock-in8hc Рік тому +2

    sizzle sizzle pop

  • @OumoukalsoumWade
    @OumoukalsoumWade 6 місяців тому

    Version française svp

  • @averyhill5920
    @averyhill5920 2 роки тому +3

    48:42 chapter 3

  • @allofyouarestrangers5285
    @allofyouarestrangers5285 2 місяці тому

    bookmark- chapter 8

  • @stuartrowan1027
    @stuartrowan1027 5 місяців тому

    Dave Chappelle brought me here.

  • @TheGingerYT
    @TheGingerYT 2 роки тому +1

    54:19 - bookmark

  • @teelora1322
    @teelora1322 Рік тому +2

    To all of the non-color people and the ignorance of people of color that come from The ancestral community of Africa who were enslaved and placed in bondage during the antebellum era need to take a moment to think about the share solitude and ungratified on gratification that people color endured during this time. Chattel slavery was one of the worst and barbaric forms of enslavement in all world history and that is why so many people colored and white are interested and the notion and the stories on the plate that black people have been plagued with throughout years and centuries of time. The story that Frederick Douglass tells a story of his own from his own words no exaggerations no observance know reluctance to think or a history that has been dug up out the ground these things are coming directly from knowledge and know-how and he was subjected to the most gruesome and horrible and heartbreaking forms of slavery known to mankind. The things that these people went through are probably a hundred percent worse than what we hear or see on television keep in mind a lot of these books that have been so-called written directly from the slaves themselves have been falsified and water down so that the consumer will not be allowed to imagine the full intent and withdrawnbehavior and attributes that these people have been suffered from. To see and witness such things as a young child will forever haunt you you will be fearful of everything until you yourself have escaped the horrors of hell. The stories and autobiographies that were actually written by the slaves themselves tells very very graphic and detailed notions about the master the overseer and the slave and what happened and how these peoples lives were to be deliberately miserable deliberately evil and deliberately gruesome a lot of slave masters and Mistresses oftentimes made a mockery out of the young slaves as well as Yoder such as putting buckets of water on their heads and making them dance for sheer fun and share evilness hoping and praying that a morsel just one piece were drop of water would fall from the bucket so that she herself could enjoy watching the child be beaten half to death that is what I call evil that is what I call wicked and for you as white people to say that we do not deserve reparations after the long trauma and plate that our ancestors have went through that are clearly devastating and clearly been passed down through generations by showing other generations what and what not to do through the customs beliefs and teachings of the enslaved ancestors things have been passed down for many and centuries for my elders and they have gotten it from their elders and so forth and so on I say and this time and time now white people are some of the wickedest evil is nastiest people on Earth they mean people of color no good no good when I see my brother's walking along a thing such as a white woman who has been described as this gentle rules and delicate petal. That shall not be disturbed in any manner for she will be broken because she is so delicate sweet and heavenly when all the while she is still total opposite she was the meanest cruelest evilest malicious and sheer😂 demon of the black women slaves that they preyed upon and thus their husbands which is Master oftentimes forced himself upon these women sleeves and in return he himself had set in love with these women slave for that happening the one in slave will suffer at the hands of that stir to show his solitude and endearment to his white wife mistress so she often times will come down from her cellar and watch the women's sleeve be beaten until she was almost on alive the cruel position that white women played in the antebellum slave error is nothing short of what the master did and almost if not worse than master and overseer for they often times have been described as analyzing small children for just crying for they have been disguised as this sweet person and in return they would force the black male slaves to sexually please them whenever however and wherever make no mistakes a lot of Mistresses and a lot of their young women children were pregnant with the offspring's from slaves that they had him sold off and did what they were with that male slave he was forced to do so for he was very very terrified if he had got caught she did not care she forced him the reason why no sleeves of color were in demand for Mistresses is because the way Master describe them and magazines and brochures when acting them for sale it was frequently done with care and to detail how strong how increasingly powerful and how long and strong their penises were and these white women fantasize about this for weeks to come until she set her plan in motion. Black male slaves were taken advantage of just like black female slaves and I don't think people realize how much damage has been done to a community of people all over the world that are want ancestral ve background comes from the Afric😂an, but they were in constant companionship with with men and women of color for the sheer enjoyment of sexual pleasure among other things. White people in European people are some of the worst people on Earth by no ends a lot of them still exist for their forefathers are the same people that invited themselves to my ancestors. And these people have been taught from generation to generation not to like people of color and that people of color will never amount to the human being that they are and we are third-class citizens among everybody else white people do not like black people
    😂

    • @user-wb7nv9ht1g
      @user-wb7nv9ht1g 2 місяці тому

      White people have been enslaved by Africans and slavery is as old as humans have been around. Africans sold others to be taken to the Americans. It would be more simple if these people are good and these are bad but that's a ridiculous way to look at people.

    • @lisasmith767
      @lisasmith767 12 днів тому

      If I read all that I’d be collecting my social security by the time I was done.

  • @dory2121
    @dory2121 Рік тому

    2:20:00 3:26:30

  • @charliesmith8309
    @charliesmith8309 Рік тому

    bookmark 1:36:15

  • @kitkat67890
    @kitkat67890 Рік тому

    Love

  • @vincentwong1060
    @vincentwong1060 7 місяців тому

    25:40” Chapter 1

  • @clifforddriver9434
    @clifforddriver9434 Рік тому +2

    Now does reparations make sense to any of you, on top of all that you had to deal with your family being auctioned off, never to be heard from again, that's exactly what we've had to deal with and are dealing with today.

    • @kevinjackson4933
      @kevinjackson4933 Рік тому

      Reparations from 2023 white Americans to 2023 black Americans doesn't make sense. It's arbitrary and punishes innocent people while solving nothing (free money has never solved anything--only makes things worse---look at welfare and everything else the government does). It also creates tremendous racial division and resent. It's unjust. All of out ancestors went through terrible things. Worry about doing the right thing today. Worry about the only thing you can change: yourself. Scapegoating and resent are toxic.

    • @clifforddriver9434
      @clifforddriver9434 Рік тому

      @@kevinjackson4933 It didn't make sense initially to work, murder, and sell others ancestors it's you who happens to not make a damn bit of sense take back to wherever it is your from your opinion means absolutely not a damn thing.

    • @amysifuentes55
      @amysifuentes55 Рік тому +8

      That’s a great idea only if that happens then Native Americans will need reparations first and land back. What will that leave the USA with? That would also have to happen to Mexicans as the USA broke the treaty of Guadalupe guaranteeing the land and citizenship of Mexicans who were on USA territory before the USA owned the land. Realistically it will never happen. Every race has been involved in horrible sad situations and African Americans were not the first to be enslaved

    • @clifforddriver9434
      @clifforddriver9434 Рік тому

      @@amysifuentes55 Bullshit, save your breath girly male, you got a brain like a chicken...a dead one.

    • @kevinjackson4933
      @kevinjackson4933 Рік тому

      @@amysifuentes55 Whites were enslaved en masse by brown people in the Barbary slave trade. Gimme my reparations.

  • @angelina9345
    @angelina9345 2 роки тому

    1:05:05

  • @killbeastefootball
    @killbeastefootball 15 днів тому

    31:46 pg 22

  • @sarastallard6289
    @sarastallard6289 3 місяці тому +1

    AP English Language

  • @xTri-dj6qb
    @xTri-dj6qb 11 місяців тому

    48:45

  • @BilboBaggins-rr2vn
    @BilboBaggins-rr2vn Рік тому

    Here. Hit this.....

  • @williehopkins2291
    @williehopkins2291 3 місяці тому

    5:21

  • @sharinaross1865
    @sharinaross1865 Рік тому

    12:00

  • @joeannfoster
    @joeannfoster 8 місяців тому +7

    Guys, I need to ask y’all something ... and I want y’all to be totally honest with me, it might be awkward with all us after this but I have to know how y’all feel, I have kept this in for a while and it's about time I was straight up and just confront you about it, l hope this doesn't ruin the relationship we all already have, I just need to know and I don't see any other way to get over this, it just doesn't seem fair to me if I don't get an answer, l want y’all to tell me truthfully, no matter what it is, I just want y’all’s honest opinion... do y’all know the muffin man??

  • @zpanda4466
    @zpanda4466 2 роки тому +1

    18

  • @princezuko9204
    @princezuko9204 Рік тому

    21:32

  • @ДмитрийДепутатов
    @ДмитрийДепутатов 2 місяці тому

    Lee Paul Garcia Scott Anderson Elizabeth

  • @williamharper1881
    @williamharper1881 Рік тому

    fye

  • @stokesr08
    @stokesr08 Рік тому +1

    Ummmm!!!!!

  • @michaelmyers6985
    @michaelmyers6985 Рік тому +1

    like #257

  • @SerikPoliasc
    @SerikPoliasc Місяць тому

    Anderson Amy Thomas John Anderson Anna

  • @joeannfoster
    @joeannfoster 8 місяців тому

    ;)

  • @nataliew-s7019
    @nataliew-s7019 Рік тому

    56:33

  • @EquipteHarry
    @EquipteHarry Місяць тому

    Brown Lisa Martinez Jeffrey Lee Karen

  • @usgamechamp1091
    @usgamechamp1091 2 місяці тому

    How can this man be so smart but not know his fellow black man was the people who sold him!!!?

  • @ColinKellogg-m9f
    @ColinKellogg-m9f 7 місяців тому

    Is anyone bricked

  • @delilahgarcia7971
    @delilahgarcia7971 2 роки тому +8

    1:14:04 Chapter 6

  • @delilahgarcia7971
    @delilahgarcia7971 2 роки тому +5

    1:34:06 Chapter 8

  • @delilahgarcia7971
    @delilahgarcia7971 2 роки тому +4

    1:21:06 Chapter 7

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