This French-language reading of chapters 1 and 10 of the 1845 Douglass narrative is performed by Prof. Sylvain Gallais, clinical professor of French, School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University. It employs the text of Vie de Frédéric Douglass, esclave Américain, trans. S.K. Parkes (Paris: Pagnerre, 1848). Performed October 2008.
Chapter 1, 12:08 minutes
Chapter 10, 1:15:21 minutes
Antislavery Literature Project 