Narratives of the Life of Frederick Douglas: An American Slave

Written by Himself

Boston: Published at the Anti-Slavery Office No. 25 Cornhill, 1845

Slave Narratives for Common Core State Standard Analysis: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas: An American Slave Full Text and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights contains chapter by chapter critical thinking questions and essay prompts to help hone higher order thinking skills in students and all readers as they study imperative primary source documents to discover history in America and its role in shaping our national and global perspective. In this series, literacy across the curriculum comes alive as students discover slavery from the words of freed and fugitive slaves.

Students define what it means to be free as they analyze, think and write through documents on slavery as compared to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and their own personal experiences.