ISBN10: 2382742712, ISBN13: 9782382742716, [publisher: Les prairies numériques] Softcover Zustand: Wie neu | Seiten: 82 | Sprache: Englisch
[Trebbin, Germany] [Publication Year: 2020]

ISBN10: 177481725X, ISBN13: 9781774817254, [publisher: Independently Published] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Frederick Douglass was born in slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland. He was not sure of the exact year of his birth, but he knew that it was 1817 or 1818. As a young boy he was sent to Baltimore, to be a house servant, where he learned to read and write, with the assistance of his master's wife. In 1838 he escaped from slavery and went to New York City, where he married Anna Murray, a free colored woman whom he had met in Baltimore. Soon thereafter he changed his name to Frederick Douglass. In 1841 he addressed a convention of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in Nantucket and so greatly impressed the group that they immediately employed him as an agent. He was such an impressive orator that numerous persons doubted if he had ever been a slave, so he wrote Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass. During the Civil War he assisted in the recruiting of colored men for the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Regiments and consistently argued for the emancipation of slaves. After the war he was active in securing and protecting the rights of the freemen. In his later years, at different times, he was secretary of the Santo Domingo Commission, marshal and recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia, and United States Minister to Haiti. His other autobiographical ...

ISBN10: 1435171934, ISBN13: 9781435171930, [publisher: Union Square & Co.] Softcover Paperback. Born on a Maryland plantation, Frederick Douglassborn Frederick Baileydoesnt know the year of his birth. Separated from his mother in infancy, he sees her only a few times, always at night, before she dies. At the age of seven or eight, Fredericks mistress begins teaching him to read, until her furious husband forbids it. Frederick realizes then that reading is his path to freedom, and he determines to run away to the northern United Stateswhatever the cost. In addition to the original text, this volume also includes 11 selected essays and speeches, among them the famous What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
[Truganina, VIC, Australia] [Publication Year: 2022]
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ISBN10: 0345478231, ISBN13: 9780345478238, [publisher: Random House USA Inc] Softcover Paperback. This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume.Frederick Douglass's Narrative, first published in 1845, is an enlightening and incendiary text. Born into slavery, Douglass became the preeminent spokesman for his people during his life; his narrative is an unparalleled account of the dehumanizing effects of slavery and Douglass's own triumph over it. Like Douglass, Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery, and in 1861 she published Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, now recognized as the most comprehensive antebellum slave narrative written by a woman. Jacobs's account broke the silence on the exploitation of African American female slaves, and it remains crucial reading. These narratives illuminate and inform each other. This edition includes an incisive Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah and extensive annotations. In his wrenching, classic autobiography--one of the most important documents in American history--Douglass describes himself as a man who became a slave and, later, a slave who became a man. Reissue. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
[Truganina, VIC, Australia] [Publication Year: 2004]

ISBN10: 1435171950, ISBN13: 9781435171954, [publisher: Union Square & Co., New York] Softcover Paperback. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass encompasses eleven chapters that recount Douglass's life as a slave and his ambition to become a free man. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist of the early 19th century in the United States. Each book in Barnes & Noble's Flexibound Pocket Editions features authoritative text by one of the world's greatest authors in an elegantly designed bonded-leather binding, with distinctive gilt edging. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
[Truganina, VIC, Australia] [Publication Year: 2021]

ISBN10: 0525563008, ISBN13: 9780525563006, [publisher: Random House USA Inc, New York] Softcover Paperback. A new Vintage Classics edition of the abolitionist leader's classic autobiography.A Vintage Classics edition of the abolitionist leader's classic autobiography.In telling his personal story, Douglass gives eloquent expression to the principles that made him the first great African-American leader in the United States.This dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave was first published in 1845, when its young author had just achieved his freedom. Frederick Douglass's childhood in Maryland was marked by tragedy, physical abuse, and deprivation; he had limited contact with his mother and no knowledge of his father (who might have been his owner), and he regularly endured brutal beatings. Yet despite his harrowing experiences, through determination and sheer force of character he was able to secretly acquire literacy and eventually escape to the North, where he became a forceful and dazzling proponent of abolition. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
[Truganina, VIC, Australia] [Publication Year: 2018]
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ISBN10: 0679783288, ISBN13: 9780679783282, [publisher: Random House USA Inc, New York] Softcover Paperback. Introduction by Kwame Anthony AppiahCommentary by Jean Fagan Yellin and Margaret FullerThis Modern Library edition combines two of the most important African American slave narratives-crucial works that each illuminate and inform the other.Frederick Douglass's Narrative, first published in 1845, is an enlightening and incendiary text. Born into slavery, Douglass became the preeminent spokesman for his people during his life; his narrative is an unparalleled account of the dehumanizing effects of slavery and Douglass's own triumph over it.Like Douglass, Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery, and in 1861 she published Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, now recognized as the most comprehensive antebellum slave narrative written by a woman. Jacobs's account broke the silence on the exploitation of African American female slaves, and it remains essential reading.Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume. Frederick Douglass's Narrative, first published in 1845, is an enlightening and incendiary text. Born into slavery, Douglass became the preeminent spokesman for his people during his life; his narrative is an unparalleled account of the dehumanizing effects of slavery and Douglass's own triumph over ...