The story of the African American abolitionist who, in one dramatic incident, discovered the meaning of freedom.
... 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.
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 ...
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.
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, ...
An updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materialsThe preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass’s Narrative powerfully details the life of the...
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.
Enriched eBook Features Editors Houston Baker and Derrick R. Spires provides the following specially commissioned features for this Enriched eBook Classic: • Chronology • Nineteenth-Century Reviews and Responses • Further Reading • ...
18, 1846, Letters of Garrison, 3:378–79. 151 “rapturously received”: Ibid., 379. 151 “more delighted”: William Lloyd Garrison to Helen Benson Garrison, Aug. 18, 1846, ibid., 377. 151 “smitten him”: William Lloyd Garrison to Edmund ...
A new edition of the African American masterpiece featuring critical essays by Angela Y. Davis
The text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th century in the United States.