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This dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave was first published in 1845, when its young author had just achieved his freedom. Douglass' eloquence gives a clear indication of the powerful principles that led him to become the first great African-American leader in the United States. The personal account of a fugitive slave's privation and sufferings and his campaigns for Negro emancipation. This dramatic autobiography of the...
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English
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The story of Frederick Douglass is passionate, harrowing, and inspiring. As a former slave, impassioned abolitionist, gifted writer, newspaper editor, and powerful orator, Douglass was an immense, motivational figure. His early life, filled with physical abuse, deprivation, and tragedy, adds up to a heart-wrenching history. However, he was able to overcome everything that bound a slave to his life and become a leading spokesman for his people.
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Series
Library of America volume 68
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1994]
Physical Desc
1126 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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"Born a slave, Frederick Douglass educated himself, escaped, and made himself one of the greatest leaders in American history. His three autobiographical narratives, collected here in one volume, are now recognized as classics of both American history and American literature. Writing with the eloquence and fierce intelligence that made him a brilliantly effective spokesman for abolition and equal rights, Douglass shapes an inspiring vision of self-realization...
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Series
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xviii, 789 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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 life - from the abolition of slavery to women's rights, from the Civil War to lynching, from American patriotism to black nationalism." "Between 1950 and 1975, Philip S. Foner collected the most important of Douglass's hundreds...
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Series
Publisher
Kennebec Large Print
Pub. Date
2011, c1845
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
175 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Frederick Douglass was born in slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland. He was not sure of the exact year of his birth, but he knew that it was 1817 or 1818. As a young boy he was sent to Baltimore, to be a house servant, where he learned to read and write, with the assistance of his master's wife. In 1838 he escaped from slavery and went to New York City, where he married Anna Murray, a free colored...
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Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
222 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
This volume compiles original source material that illustrates the complex relationship between Frederick Douglass and the city of Brooklyn. Most prominent are the speeches the abolitionist gave at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Plymouth Church, and other leading Brooklyn institutions. Whether discussing the politics of the Civil War or recounting his relationships with Abraham Lincoln and John Brown, Douglass' powerful voice sounds anything but dated....
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1995
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xviii, 220 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
A selection of writings by Frederick Douglass, an influential and renowned black leader of the nineteenth century, which show his impassioned indictments against slavery, injustice, inequality and racism.
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Publisher
Penguin Classics
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
579 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A new collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leader This compact volume offers a full course on the remarkable, diverse career of Frederick Douglass, letting us hear once more a necessary historical figure whose guiding voice is needed now as urgently as ever. Edited by renowned scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Pulitzer Prize-nominated historian John Stauffer, The Portable Frederick Douglass...
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Publisher
Bedford/St. Martin's
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 188 p. : port. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
An autobiographical account by the runaway slave Frederick Douglass that chronicles his experiences with his owners and overseers, and discusses how slavery affected both slaves and slaveholders
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Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (4 hrs.) : digital, MP3 ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Enter the world of a slave, with all the pathos, brutal honesty, and striving of the heart to breathe free. Frederick Douglass was born in slavery in Talbot County, Maryland. During service to masters cruel and kind, he nevertheless learned to read and write. After suffering whippings, hunger, heat, cold, and grueling labor, he escaped from slavery in 1838. In 1841, he addressed an Anti-Slavery Society convention and spoke so eloquently that they...
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Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
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William Craft (1824—1900) and Ellen Craft (1826—1891) were American slaves from Georgia who managed to escape to the North in 1848. Disguised as a white male painter (Ellen Craft) and servant (William Craft), they travelled openly by rail and river and arrived in Philadelphia on Christmas Day. Their exploit became well known and was covered widely in the press, which put their lives in danger and resulted in the pair moving to England, where they...
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Four of the most important and enduring American slave narratives together in one volume.
Until slavery was abolished in 1865, millions of men, women, and children toiled under a system that stripped them of their freedom and their humanity. Much has been written about this shameful era of American history, but few books speak with as much power as the narratives written by those who experienced slavery firsthand.
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Until slavery was abolished in 1865, millions of men, women, and children toiled under a system that stripped them of their freedom and their humanity. Much has been written about this shameful era of American history, but few books speak with as much power as the narratives written by those who experienced slavery firsthand.
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