Selections of speeches and writings from the great abolitionist and statesman, focusing on the slave trade, the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, suffrage for African-Americans, Southern reconstruction, and other vital issues.
This volume gathers and interprets valuable selections from a variety of Douglass’s writings, including speeches, editorials, correspondence, and autobiographies.
Douglass retells the story of his childhood and escape from slavery, offering details that he could not previously reveal, with friends, family, and other innocents still in the thrall of slavemasters.
Provides a record of the social reformer's personal setbacks and triumphs as well as his oratorical ability and literary output. Bibliogs
To commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War, Diversion Books is publishing seminal works of the era: stories told by the men and women who led, who fought, and who lived in an America that had come apart at the seams.
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 edition offers a selection of Douglass’s most significant writing and oratory from throughout his long career, including the complete texts of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which has become a classic ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This volume also reproduces Frederick Douglass's only work of fiction, The Heroic Slave, published in 1853.
... the paper edited by William Lloyd Garrison and published by Isaac Knapp, and asked me to subscribe for it. ... Soon after becoming a reader of the Liberator, it was my privilege to listen to a lecture in Liberty Hall by.
In this seminal work, Douglass details the cruelty of slave holders, how slaves were supposed to behave in the presence of their masters, the fear that kept many slaves where they were, and the punishments received by any slave who dared to ...