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My Escape from Slavery

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by Frederick Douglass
36 minutes, 37 seconds
Unabridged Memoir / Essay
1881

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“In the first narrative of my experience in slavery, written nearly forty years ago, and in various writings since, I have given the public what I considered very good reasons for withholding the manner of my escape…” Frederick Douglass reveals the missing piece of his autobiography, in a tale that could not have been told without endangering others so long as slavery continued. Read by Alex Wilson.

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Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was a Maryland-born author, educator, publisher, speaker, and abolitionist. As a young slave in the South, he started an illegal, secret school to educate his fellow slaves. After fleeing to the North, he published his famous autobiography and the abolitionist newspaper the North Star (later Frederick Douglass' Paper, and spoke out against racial inustice. During the Civil War, he served as an advisor to President Abraham Lincoln and, with the North's victory he saw the passages of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. But he continued to fight for social injustice to the end of his days, speaking out against lynching and "Jim Crow" laws, and passing away shortly after attending an meeting on women's suffrage in 1895.


Alex Wilson is a writer and actor from northern Ohio and now based in Carrboro, North Carolina. His stories and comics have appeared/will appear in
Asimov's Science Fiction, The Rambler, Outlaw Territory II (Image Comics), Weird Tales, Futurismic, LCRW and elsewhere. Locus has called him a "promising new writer," and Publishers Weekly also has nice things to say. Website)

Alex has performed lead roles in the North American premiere of (Richard Taylor's musical)
Whistle Down the Wind and (Emmy-nominated director Jack Lucido's film) The Third Cord. He has recently appeared in the Deep Dish Theater productions of Hedda Gabler and Moon for the Misbegotten, and recorded narrations for Escape Pod and Night Shade Books. (Acting Resume/Reel) On early Telltale recordings, Alex is sometimes credited as "Alexander Wilson." He founded Telltale in 2004.





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