Book Review: The Heroic Slave

"The hope of freedom seemed to sweeten...the bitter cup of slavery"   Pt. I

Stars: 4/5

Frederick Douglass's 1852 venture into fiction is a short tale of a slave, Madison Washington, and his attempts to escape enslavement and flee to Canada. Along the way, Madison meets Mr. Listwell, a white abolitionist, who befriends him and aids him in his escape. For fear of giving too much away - you'll have to read it for yourself - in the end, we hear of Madison landing on the shores of Nassau, Bahamas.

Although it didn’t reach the prominence in anti-slavery fiction as Uncle Tom’s Cabin of the same year, The Heroic Slave is substantial in the fact that it was written by distinguished abolitionist, Frederick Douglass.

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