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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (an African American Heritage Book)
Hardcover
Biographies GeneralBlack American StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies
ISBN13: 9781604592337
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Jan 22 2008
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Frederick Douglass tells the complete story of his extraordinary journey from enslavement to freedom-and from fugitive to one of America's most influential writers, reformers, and statesmen.
In Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Douglass revisits his childhood in slavery, his secret pursuit of literacy, his resistance to brutal treatment, and his daring escape to freedom. He then carries his story far beyond the events recounted in his earlier autobiographies, describing his rise as a celebrated abolitionist lecturer, newspaper editor, political activist, and international spokesman for human liberty.
Douglass offers a firsthand account of the abolitionist movement, the Civil War, emancipation, Reconstruction, and the continuing struggle for equal citizenship. He writes candidly about his relationships with fellow reformers and political leaders, the recruitment of Black soldiers, his evolving understanding of the Constitution, and the difficult compromises required to turn moral conviction into political action.
The third and final of Douglass's autobiographies, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass presents the broadest account of his life and public career. Both a gripping personal narrative and an indispensable work of American history, it reveals the intelligence, courage, and determination of a man who transformed his own life while helping transform the nation.
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