Slavery - Emancipation, Abolition & African American Civil War Participation, Slavery - Social Sciences, Civil Rights - Movements & Figures, Historical Biography - United States - 19th Century, Civil Rights - African American History, Abolitionists - Biog
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Overview
The son of a black slave and an unknown white father, Frederick Douglass (c.1817-1895) knew firsthand the privations and brutality of America's "peculiar institution." After his second, and successful, attempt to escape he went on to become a leading abolitionist, a militant spokesman for African-American rights, a friend to Abraham Lincoln and other presidents, the holder of three major government offices, as well as a remarkable writer, orator, and editor. Quarles goes beyond Douglass's own three autobiographies to examine his impact on the anti-slavery movement, the Civil War, Reconstruction, women's suffrage, and the Republican Party during its first forty years, and to explore his personal and family life, including his then-controversial second marriage to a white woman. Frederick Douglass is a vivid realization of the man and the age in which he lived.Book Details
Published
October 1, 1997
Publisher
Da Capo Press Inc
Pages
432
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780306807909