Editing Frederick Douglass (section)

===Autobiography===
Douglass's best-known work is his first autobiography, ''[[Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave]]'', written during his time in [[Lynn, Massachusetts]]<ref>{{Cite news |title=Re-Examining Fredrick Douglass's Time in Lynn |publisher=Lynn Daily Item / itemlive.com |url=https://www.itemlive.com/2018/02/02/re-examining-fredrick-douglasss-time-lynn/ |url-status=live |access-date=June 1, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201221122601/https://www.itemlive.com/2018/02/02/re-examining-fredrick-douglasss-time-lynn/ |archive-date=December 21, 2020}}</ref> and published in 1845. At the time, some skeptics questioned whether a black man could have produced such an eloquent piece of literature. The book received generally positive reviews and became an immediate bestseller. Within three years, it had been reprinted nine times, with 11,000 copies circulating in the United States. It was also translated into French and [[Dutch language|Dutch]] and published in Europe.

Douglass published three autobiographies during his lifetime (and revised the third of these), each time expanding on the previous one. The 1845 ''Narrative'' was his biggest seller and probably allowed him to raise the funds to gain his legal freedom the following year, as discussed below. In 1855, Douglass published ''[[My Bondage and My Freedom]]''. In 1881, in his sixties, Douglass published ''[[Life and Times of Frederick Douglass]]'', which he revised in 1892.