Frederick douglass narrative audiobook

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Sign up Log in. The book itself is outstanding and the writing beautifully crafted only to be butchered by the reader. I can get past the reader being the opposite gender of the narrator, having listed to opposite gendered readers have a extraordinary job, but she conveys no emotion in her tone. You can also hear her swallow and the saliva in her mouth as she reads which puts off wanting to continue through the book.

Even thought this reading was free it would be worth the money to find a better reader. Toggle navigation LibriVox Audio Books. Reviews Provocative and Inspirational 5 stars. Great book 4 stars. History from one who lived it, everyone should listen. Important historical contribution, a must read. Love Narrator! One of the best books available from Librivox and the Internet Archive 5 stars.

Great book destroyed by reader 1 stars. Read by Jeanette Ferguson. Chapter I. This new book substantially expands on that work, weaving together 18 essays that explore the legacy of slavery in present-day America with 36 poems and works of fiction that illuminate key moments of oppression, struggle, and resistance. By: Nikole Hannah-Jones , and others.

For a book-obsessed kid with a big imagination and a flair for drama, could anything be luckier than living in a library? Capturing her remarkable childhood and its impact, Sharon Washington's autobiographical Off-Broadway show brings its sense of wonder and bittersweet realism into your home and heart as an enthralling audio experience. Only from Audible, Feeding the Dragon celebrates the role of books in opening Washington's mind to worlds of possibilities - including a career in acting.

Frederick douglass narrative audiobook

By: Sharon Washington. What is it like to inhabit a Black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? By: Ta-Nehisi Coates. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire. By: Ibram X. Kendi - editor , and others. The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking presents practical, lively, and inspiring ways for you to become more successful through better thinking.

The idea is simple: You can learn how to think far better by adopting specific strategies. Brilliant people aren't a special breed--they just use their minds differently. By: Edward B. Burger , and others. From to , this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history.

She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. By: Isabel Wilkerson. Debut author Vashti Harrison tells the stories of both iconic and lesser-known female figures of black history - from nurse Mary Seacole to politician Diane Abbott, mathematician Katherine Johnson and singer Shirley Bassey.

Among these biographies listeners will find heroes, role models and everyday women who did extraordinary things. By: Vashti Harrison. Before we whipped out our old high school syllabi and dug deep into our libraries to start selecting contenders for this list, we first had to answer the question, "How do we define a classic? Of course, most critically, each of our picks had to be fabulous in audio.

The 13 chapters of The Art of War , each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.

By: Sun Tzu. The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization. By: Jack Weatherford. Fingerprints of the Gods is the revolutionary rewrite of history that has persuaded millions of listeners throughout the world to change their preconceptions about the history behind modern society.

An intellectual detective story, this unique history audiobook directs probing questions at orthodox history, presenting disturbing new evidence that historians have tried - but failed - to explain. By: Graham Hancock. Do you know how many wives Zeus had? Or how the famous Trojan War was caused by one beautiful lady? Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life, describing his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years, is one of the most influential books ever written.

The bible of the environmental movement, Walden vividly portrays Thoreau's reverence for nature, and his understanding of the idea that nature is made up of crucially interrelated parts. By: Henry David Thoreau. Uncle Tom's Cabin opens with a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelby facing the loss of his farm because of debts. Even though he and his wife, Emily Shelby, believe that they have a benevolent relationship with their slaves, Shelby decides to raise the needed funds by selling two of them - Uncle Tom, a middle-aged man with a wife and children, and Harry, the son of Emily Shelby's maid Eliza - to a slave trader.

By: Harriet Beecher Stowe. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town. By: Arthur Miller. As a young man, Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major literary figures of his time.

He wrote three versions of his autobiography over the course of his lifetime and published his own newspaper. His very existence gave the lie to slave owners: with dignity and great intelligence, he bore witness to the brutality of slavery. By: David W. Booker T. Starting from the humiliation he experienced as a slave, he ponders the meaning of identity in a situation that seeks to dehumanize.

He furthers his story by expanding on his difficulties in obtaining an education and the need for change in our minds as well as societal structures. By: Booker T. Activist and abolitionist Frederick Douglass is one of the most famous anti-slavery writers in American history. Following 20 years of enslavement in Maryland, Douglass made a daring bid for freedom in , travelling north via the "underground railroad" before arriving in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he would settle.

It was not long before Douglass took up the cause of black Americans, risking his freedom through writing and lecturing, and travelling the globe to spread his message. Thomas H. By: Solomon Northrup , and others. In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in , Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement.

His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American dream and the inherent racism in a society that denies its non-White citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most urgent issues of our own time. By: Malcolm X , and others. The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal, a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.

Here Hemingway recasts, in strikingly contemporary style, the classic theme of courage in the face of defeat, of personal triumph won from loss. By: Ernest Hemingway. First published in , this collection of 15 essays dared to describe the racism that prevailed at that time in America—and to demand an end to it. By: W. Du Bois. This is a special bicentennial edition of Douglass' most famous book, which has been published by his direct descendants through Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives FDFI.

Widely regarded as the first English novel, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is one of the most popular and influential adventure stories of all time. This classic tale of shipwreck and survival on an uninhabited island was an instant success when first published in , and it has inspired countless imitations. By: Daniel Defoe. The most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes, the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his or her own instincts and ideas.