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Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
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...
102) The life of Frederick Douglass: a graphic narrative of a slave's journey from bondage to freedom
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Recently returned to the cultural spotlight, Frederick Douglass's impact on American history is felt even in today's current events. Comic book writer and filmmaker David F. Walker joins with the art team of Damon Smyth and Marissa Louise to bring the long, exciting, and influential life of Douglass to life in comic book form. Taking you from Douglass's life as a young slave through his forbidden education to his escape and growing prominence as a...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Presents three animated stories about freedom in the United States, including the stories of a boy who hides in a wooden crate and mails himself to freedom; the friendship between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass; and Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In his extensive writings--editorials, speeches, autobiographies--Frederick Douglass revealed little about the private side of his life. His famous autobiographies were very much in the service of presenting and advocating for himself. But Douglass had a very complicated array of relationships with women: white and black, wives and lovers, mistresses-owners, and sisters and daughters. And this great man deeply needed them all at various turns in...
105) Frederick Douglass
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
David Blight has drawn on new information held in a private collection that few other historian have consulted, as well as recently discovered issues of Douglass's newspapers. Blight tells the fascinating story of Douglass's two marriages and his complex extended family. Douglass was not only an astonishing man of words, but a thinker steeped in Biblical story and theology.
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