A biography of the runaway slave who became an abolitionist, an orator and writer, and a crusader for women's rights.
A powerful autobiography of a passionate civil rights advocate, this book will be of value to anyone interested in African-American history.
Frederick Douglass was born in slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass - Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause, Frederick Douglass (18181895) led ...
Prophet of Freedom David W. Blight ... Wells-Barnett, Crusade for Justice, 87–105; Schechter, Ida B. Wells-Barnett,91–94. Robert W. Rydell, ed., The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World's Columbian Exposition, ...
This volume gathers and interprets valuable selections from a variety of Douglass’s writings, including speeches, editorials, correspondence, and autobiographies.
One of the greatest African American leaders and one of the most brilliant minds of his time, Frederick Douglass spoke and wrote with unsurpassed eloquence on almost all the major issues confronting the American people during his ...
This volume of The Frederick Douglass Papers represents the first of a four-volume series of the selected correspondence of the great American abolitionist and reformer.
This Norton Critical Edition includes: - Frederick Douglass’s 1845 Narrative, the most influential autobiography of its kind. - A preface and explanatory footnotes by William L. Andrews and William S. McFeely.
The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: Early years, 1817-1849
great “ l ” when in 1844 he began to write a story of his life that would make the world pay him true attention . ... such as William L. Andrews , who see them as two in the series of I narratives of that most remarkable of all decades ...