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Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

Written by Himself

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Published in 1845, this little book was widely read by the public in the North who knew little about the inner workings of slavery. It was favorably reviewed in the New York Tribune: Considered merely as narrative, we have never read one more simple, true, coherent and warm with genuine feeling, and it had a great influence on public opinion across the Atlantic: Taking all together, not less than one million of persons in Great Britain and Ireland have been excited by the book and its commentators. Here then is Douglass' powerful account of his journey, by way of determined self education, from slavery to being one of America's great states… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-78139-437-3
  • EAN: 9781781394373
  • Produktnummer: 25731834
  • Verlag: Benediction Classics
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 86 S.
  • Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.1 cm x D0.9 cm 305 g
  • Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 305

Über den Autor


Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; c.¿February 1817[1] - February 20, 1895[5]) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory[6] and incisive antislavery writings. In his time, he was described by abolitionists as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens.[7][8] Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave.[9]Douglass wrote several autobiographies. He described his experiences as a slave in his 1845 autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which became a bestseller, and was influential in promoting the cause of abolition, as was his second book, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855). After the Civil War, Douglass remained an active campaigner against slavery and wrote his last autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. First published in 1881 and revised in 1892, three years before his death, it covered events during and after the Civil War. Douglass also actively supported women's suffrage, and held several public offices. Without his approval, Douglass became the first African American nominated for Vice President of the United States as the running mate and Vice Presidential nominee of Victoria Woodhull, on the Equal Rights Party ticket.[10]Douglass was a firm believer in the equality of all peoples, whether white, black, female, Native American, or Chinese immigrants.[11] He was also a believer in dialogue and in making alliances across racial and ideological divides, and in the liberal values of the U.S. Constitution.[12] When radical abolitionists, under the motto No Union with Slaveholders, criticized Douglass' willingness to engage in dialogue with slave owners, he replied: I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.

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