ISBN10: 1598537229, ISBN13: 9781598537222, [publisher: The Library of America] Hardcover New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
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ISBN10: 1598537229, ISBN13: 9781598537222, [publisher: The Library of America] Hardcover New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
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ISBN10: 1598537229, ISBN13: 9781598537222, [publisher: Library of America] Hardcover Frederick Douglass (1818&ndash1895) was born Frederick Bailey in eastern Maryland, the son of an enslaved mother and an unknown white man. In 1838 he escaped to the North and took the name Douglass. During the next decade he became an antislavery le.
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ISBN10: 1598537229, ISBN13: 9781598537222, [publisher: The Library of America] Hardcover 2022. Hardback. . . . . .
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ISBN10: 1598537229, ISBN13: 9781598537222, [publisher: Library Of America Okt 2022] Hardcover Neuware - The eloquent and defiant writings of the great American freedom fighter, selected by his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographerFrederick Douglass was one of the greatest orators and essayists in American history. While toiling as an enslaved laborer in the Baltimore shipyards he bought a secondhand copy of The Columbian Orator, a 'noble acquisition' that he carried with him on his escape to the North. Douglass began his career as an antislavery lecturer in 1841 and founded his first newspaper, North Star, six years later.For the next five decades 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 savage irony, moral urgency, and keen insight. In his incandescent jeremiad 'What to the Slave is the 4th of July ' Douglass skewered the hypocrisy of the slaveholding republic; and in 'The Claims of the Negro Ethnologically Considered' he refuted white supremacist ideology. 'Resistance to Blood-Houndism' called for forceful opposition to the Fugitive Slave Act; 'Capt. John Brown Not Insane' praised the 'self-forgetful heroism' of the abolitionist martyr; and 'How to End the War,' published in 1861, called for the raising of Black ...

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ISBN10: 1598537229, ISBN13: 9781598537222, [publisher: Library Of America Okt 2022] Hardcover Neuware - The eloquent and defiant writings of the great American freedom fighter, selected by his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographerFrederick Douglass was one of the greatest orators and essayists in American history. While toiling as an enslaved laborer in the Baltimore shipyards he bought a secondhand copy of The Columbian Orator, a 'noble acquisition' that he carried with him on his escape to the North. Douglass began his career as an antislavery lecturer in 1841 and founded his first newspaper, North Star, six years later.For the next five decades 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 savage irony, moral urgency, and keen insight. In his incandescent jeremiad 'What to the Slave is the 4th of July ' Douglass skewered the hypocrisy of the slaveholding republic; and in 'The Claims of the Negro Ethnologically Considered' he refuted white supremacist ideology. 'Resistance to Blood-Houndism' called for forceful opposition to the Fugitive Slave Act; 'Capt. John Brown Not Insane' praised the 'self-forgetful heroism' of the abolitionist martyr; and 'How to End the War,' published in 1861, called for the raising of Black ...