Frederick Douglass

  • Frederick Douglass: Abolitionist and Fighter for Equality
    By Jason Porterfield

    His birth name was Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. He changed his name after he escaped from slavery. QuickFactWhen he was older, Frederick always celebrated his birthday on February 14. 8 FREDERICK DOUGLASS very little and had ...

  • Frederick Douglass: From Slave to Statesman
    By Alice Fleming

    ... Phebe King Lucy Spalding Lydla Mount Julia Ann Drake Lovina Latham Della Mathews Charlotte Woodward Sarah Smith Catherine C. Paine Martha Underhill Elina Martin Elizabeth W. M'Clintock Dorothy Mathews Maria E. Wilbur Malvina Seymour ...

  • Frederick Douglass: Slave, Writer, Abolitionist
    By Brenda Haugen

    That year , on April 14 , President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington , D.C. Frederick Douglass became more determined to work for fairness for freed slaves , urging justice , not pity ...

  • Frederick Douglass
    By David F. Walker

    Told from Douglass's point of view and based on his own writings, The Life of Frederick Douglass provides an up-close-and-personal look at a history-making American who was larger than life.

  • Frederick Douglass: Abolitionist and Reformer
    By Rachael Phillips

    Several months before , Thomas Auld had sent his brother another slave , Frederick's cousin Henny . But Henny's hands were scarred , curled uselessly from falling into a fire as a small child . Although she could carry heavy loads ...

  • Frederick Douglass
    By William S. McFeely

    Probes beneath the public image of this important national leader to reveal a complex portrait of the man who exposed the brutal injustice of slavery and spoke loudly and clearly for the cause of freedom

  • Frederick Douglass
    By William S. McFeely

    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 ...

  • Frederick Douglass: A Biography
    By C. James Trotman

    She was a free black woman whose parents, Mary and Bambarra Murray, had been manumitted before Anna's birth, ... one another was derived from Philadelphia's Free African Society, established in 1876 by Richard Allen and Absalom Jones.

  • Frederick Douglass
    By Melissa Banta

    His original name was Frederick Bailey . He was born in February 1818 in a wooden cabin near Easton , Maryland , not far from Chesapeake Bay . He did not know who his father was , although he heard rumors that he was a white man .

  • Frederick Douglass: Líder del movimiento abolicionista
    By Melissa Carosella

    Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass relied on his own determination and ingenuity to carve a path to freedom.

  • Frederick Douglass: A Biography
    By Booker T. Washington

    A solo and chorus composed for the occasion were sung, an original poem read by T. Thomas Fortune, and addresses delivered by John C. Dancy and John H. Smyth. Joseph H. Douglass, a talented grandson of the orator, played a violin solo, ...

  • Frederick Douglass
    By Barbara Kramer

    Kids will learn about his life, achievements, and the challenges he faced along the way. The Level 2 text provides accessible, yet wide-ranging, information for independent readers.

  • Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
    By David W. Blight

    In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Frederick Douglass won the Bancroft, Parkman, Los Angeles Times (biography), Lincoln, Plutarch, and Christopher awards and was named one of the Best Books of 2018 by The New York Times Book Review, The ...

  • Frederick Douglass: Fighter Against Slavery
    By Fredrick McKissack, Patricia Mckissack

    "A simple biography about Frederick Douglass, Jr. for early readers"--Provided by publisher.

  • Frederick Douglass: America's Prophet
    By D. H. Dilbeck

    From his enslavement to freedom, Frederick Douglass was one of America's most extraordinary champions of liberty and equality.

  • Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings
    By Frederick Douglass

    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...

  • Frederick Douglass: The Last Day of Slavery
    By William Miller, Cedric Lucas

    Traces the life of the Black abolitionist, from his early years as a slave, and his promise that he would escape, and all slaves would be free

  • Frederick Douglass
    By Booker T. Washington

    A sympathetic study by the great teacher & leader of a career which was identified with the race problem in the period of revolution & liberation. The sketch reveals Douglass...

  • Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History
    By Walter Dean Myers

    In this picture book biography, the late New York Times bestselling author Walter Dean Myers and acclaimed artist Floyd Cooper take readers on an inspiring journey through the life of Frederick Douglass.

  • Frederick Douglass: A Powerful Voice for Freedom
    By Frances E. Ruffin

    The life of the famous abolitionist.