Frederick Douglass: Speeches & Writings Loa #358 Douglass Frederick
Library of America presents the biggest, most comprehensive trade edition of Frederick Douglass's writings ever published, selected by his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographerFrederick Douglass was one…
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Library of America presents the biggest, most comprehensive trade edition of Frederick Douglass's writings ever published, selected by his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographerFrederick Douglass was one of the greatest orators and essayists in American history. For five decades, from the antebellum period through the Civil War and Reconstruction and into the Gilded Age, he used his voice and wielded his pen in the cause of emancipation, equal rights, and human dignity. Inspired by the Hebrew prophets, Douglass developed a unique oratorical and literary style that combined scriptural cadences with fierce irony, moral urgency, and keen insight.Assembled by David W. Blight, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, this volume, a companion to Library of America's edition of Douglass's Autobiographies, gathers all of