Frederick Douglass: The Last Day of Slavery

Beautiful story. Younger kids need careful guidance to understand why Douglass considered this his last day of slavery.

Easy to understand, but not shirking the harsh reality that Fredrick Douglas faced. The illustrations were tasteful and not too graphic. I would recommend it for children six and up.

Son got a hint of slavery as a child. this was great

This children's book is loaded with inaccuracies.Purchase Words Set Me Free instead.

This is the worst illustrated biography for children I've ever read. Let me first say that the illustrations are beautiful... but the book, like the previous reviewer said, is full of inaccuracies. Frederick Douglass did not spend his days working in the fields, and he did not wear overalls. The author states that he had little leisure time and only one day a week... Douglass himself states in his Narrative that slave children such as himself had much time free because they were too young to work as adults did. They wore little clothing- basically only shirts- because pants were for adults. He also spent much of his childhood and adolescence in Baltimore, not on a plantation. There are further inaccuracies. The author did not do adequate research for this book, or did and ignored it.It's a fine slave story... but for the author to pass it off as Douglass' story is wrong. The one star rating goes to the nice illustrations.