The progress of his life from a slave to a leader in the movements for emancipation and Black labor are recounted by this nineteenth-century Black leader
A new one-volume edition of an American classic offers the complete memoirs of the eloquent escaped slave, who in the nineteenth century shaped the abolitionist movement and became the most influential African-American of his era.
Frederick Douglass for Kids follows the footsteps of this American hero, from his birth into slavery to his becoming a friend and confidant of presidents and the leading African American of his day.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts.
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, ...
... 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.
Robert S. Levine creates a fascinating collage of this elusive subject—revisionist biography at its best, offering new perspectives on Douglass the social reformer, orator, and writer.
"Adler, a prolific children's book author, has done a good job describing the trajectory of Douglass's life as he moved from being a slave himself to being a freer of slaves and a tireless civil rights activist.
Because of the emancipation of American slaves during and following the American Civil War, Douglass gave more details about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery in this volume than he could in his two previous autobiographies ...
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 ...
... the paper edited by William Lloyd Garrison, and published by Isaac Knapp, and asked me to subscribe for it. ... a reader of the Liberator it was my privilege to listen to a lecture in Liberty Hall, by Mr. Garrison, its editor.