This compact volume offers a full course on the remarkable, diverse career of Frederick Douglass, letting us hear once more a necessary historical figure whose guiding voice is needed now as urgently as ever.
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was an antislavery lecturer, a
journalist, a publisher, and the bestselling author of Narrative of
the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, followed by My
Bondage and My Freedom, and Life and Times of Frederick
Douglass.
John Stauffer (editor) is a professor of literature and African
American studies and chair of the History of American Civilization
program at Harvard. His eight books include The Black Hearts of
Men- Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race, Giants-
The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, and
State of Jones, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
“indispensable (…) a timelessly rewarding read in its totality”
—Maria Popova
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