LEADER 06390cam 2200757 i 4500001 on1022622448 003 OCoLC 005 20190424144136.0 008 180509s2018 nyuab b 001 0beng 010 2018007511 019 10557662081057445081 020 9781416590316 |q(hardback) 020 1416590315 |q(hardback) 020 9781416593881 |q(ebook) 020 1416593888 |q(ebook) 024 8 40028571408 035 (Sirsi) 40028835251 035 40028835251 035 (OCoLC)1022622448 |z(OCoLC)1055766208 |z(OCoLC)1057445081 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dBDX |dGK8 |dYDX |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dZVR |dJAS |dOQX |dTH8 |dINR |dBUR |dCLU |dILC |dBKL |dXZ9 |dTXKYL |dOCLCA |dR2A |dRB0 |dOCLCQ |dMNW |dOCLCQ |dYUS |dTFW |dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 043 n-us--- 050 00 E449.D75 |bB557 2018 082 00 973.8092B |223 084 BIO006000HIS036040 |2bisacsh 100 1 Blight, David W., |eauthor. |=^A243178 245 10 Frederick Douglass : |bprophet of freedom / |cDavid W. Blight. 250 First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. 264 1 New York : |bSimon & Schuster, |c[2018] 300 xx, 888 pages : |billustrations, map ; |c25 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 336 still image |bsti |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 First things -- A childhood of extremes -- The silver trump of knowledge -- Baltimore dreams -- Now for mischief! -- Living a new life -- This Douglass! -- Garrisonian in mind and body -- The thought of writing for a book! -- Send back the money! -- Demagogue in black -- My faithful friend Julia -- By the rivers of Babylon -- My voice, my pen, or my vote -- John Brown could die for the slave -- Secession : taught by events -- The kindling spirit of his battle cry -- The anthem of the redeemed -- Men of color to arms! -- Abolition war, abolition peace -- Sacred efforts -- Othello's occupation was gone -- All the leeches that feed on you -- Ventures -- What will peace among the whites bring? -- An important and lucrative office -- Joys and sorrows at Cedar Hill -- Watchman, what of the night? -- Born traveler -- Haiti : servant between two masters -- If American conscience were only half-alive -- Epilogue: Then Douglass passed. 520 "The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major literary figures of his time. He wrote three versions of his autobiography over the course of his lifetime and published his own newspaper. His very existence gave the lie to slave owners: with dignity and great intelligence he bore witness to the brutality of slavery. Initially mentored by William Lloyd Garrison, Douglass spoke widely, often to large crowds, using his own story to condemn slavery. He broke with Garrison to become a political abolitionist, a Republican, and eventually a Lincoln supporter. By the Civil War and during Reconstruction, Douglass became the most famed and widely traveled orator in the nation. He denounced the premature end of Reconstruction and the emerging Jim Crow era. In his unique and eloquent voice, written and spoken, Douglass was a fierce critic of the United States as well as a radical patriot. He sometimes argued politically with younger African-Americans, but he never forsook either the Republican party or the cause of black civil and political rights. In this remarkable biography, David Blight has drawn on new information held in a private collection that few other historians have consulted, as well as recently discovered issues of Douglass's newspapers. Blight tells the fascinating story of Douglass's two marriages and his complex extended family. Douglass was not only an astonishing man of words, but a thinker steeped in Biblical story and theology. There has not been a major biography of Douglass in a quarter century. 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