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020			_a9781416590316
050	0	0	_aE449.D75 _bB557 2018
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100	1		_aBlight, David W.
245	1	0	_aFrederick Douglass : _bprophet of freedom _c/ David W. Blight
250			_aFirst Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
260			_aNew York _b: Simon & Schuster _c, c2018
300			_a888 pages _b: illus. _c; 24 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aFrederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major literary figures of his time. He wrote three versions of his autobiography over the course of his lifetime and published his own newspaper. His very existence gave the lie to slave owners: with dignity and great intelligence he bore witness to the brutality of slavery. Initially mentored by William Lloyd Garrison, Douglass spoke widely, often to large crowds, using his own story to condemn slavery. He broke with Garrison to become a political abolitionist, a Republican, and eventually a Lincoln supporter. By the Civil War and during Reconstruction, Douglass became the most famed and widely travelled orator in the nation. He denounced the premature end of Reconstruction and the emerging Jim Crow era. In his unique and eloquent voice, written and spoken, Douglass was a fierce critic of the United States as well as a radical patriot. He sometimes argued politically with younger African-Americans, but he never forsook either the Republican party or the cause of black civil and political rights. In this biography, 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.
546			_aEnglish
600	1	4	_aDouglass, Frederick Augustus Washington, 1817 (?)-1895
650		4	_aAbolitionists _z-United States _v--Biography
650		4	_aAfrican American abolitionists _v--Biography
650		4	_aSlaves _z-United States _x-Biography
650		4	_aAntislavery movements _z-United States _x-History _y-19th century
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