America No Dorei Sei Wo Ikiru Furederikku Dagurasu Jiden / Original Title: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

[Machine Translation] The first autobiography of Douglas Douglas, from his birth as a slave to his escape, has been supplemented with a chronology of his entire life. The first autobiography of Douglass, which describes in naked detail the hardships he endured while living in defiance of slavery, which destroyed his "humanity," until his escape at the age of 20, is still read by many as a valuable record of the essence of "slavery. This book, the first edition of the complete autobiography (2016), has been supplemented with a chronology, confirming the swell of 19th-century society and providing a concise portrait of Douglass as an activist who spent his entire life in exile after his escape, in the antislavery movement, and during the Civil War, until the day of his death at age 77.

奴隷として生まれ、逃亡するまでの最初の自伝に全人生の年譜を増補!「人間性」を破壊する奴隷制に抗って生き、20歳で逃亡するまでのダグラスの苦難を赤裸々に描いた最初の自伝は、「奴隷制」の本質を描き出す貴重な記録として、今も多くの人々に読み継がれている。本書は、その自伝全訳の初版(2016年)に年譜を増補することで、19世紀の社会のうねりを確認しつつ、ダグラス逃亡後の国外亡命・奴隷制反対運動・南北戦争下の言動など、77歳で死亡する日まで活動家として生涯を全うしたダグラスの姿を簡潔に描き出す。