Frederick Douglass

Released on by David W. Blight
preview-18

  • Frederick Douglass Book Detail

  • Author : David W. Blight
  • Release Date : 2020-01-07
  • Publisher : Simon & Schuster
  • Genre : Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 912
  • ISBN 13 : 1416590323
  • File Size : 65,65 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight PDF Summary

Book Description: **Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History** “Extraordinary…a great American biography” (The New Yorker) 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. 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, using his own story to condemn slavery. By the Civil War, Douglass had become the most famed and widely travelled orator in the nation. In his unique and eloquent voice, written and spoken, Douglass was a fierce critic of the United States as well as a radical patriot. After the war 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 “cinematic and deeply engaging” (The New York Times Book Review) biography, David Blight has drawn on new information held in a private collection that few other historian have consulted, as well as recently discovered issues of Douglass’s newspapers. “Absorbing and even moving…a brilliant book that speaks to our own time as well as Douglass’s” (The Wall Street Journal), Blight’s biography tells the fascinating story of Douglass’s two marriages and his complex extended family. “David Blight has written the definitive biography of Frederick Douglass…a powerful portrait of one of the most important American voices of the nineteenth century” (The Boston Globe). In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Frederick Douglass won the Bancroft, Parkman, Los Angeles Times (biography), Lincoln, Plutarch, and Christopher awards and was named one of the Best Books of 2018 by The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Time.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Frederick Douglass books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

File Size : 30,30 MB
Total View : 7790 Views
DOWNLOAD

**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History** “Extraordinary…a great American biography” (The New Yorker) of the most important African-American of the nine

A Slave No More

A Slave No More

File Size : 68,68 MB
Total View : 9079 Views
DOWNLOAD

Shares the stories of Wallace Turnage and John Washington, former slaves who, in the midst of chaos during the Civil War, escaped to the North and lived to tell

Beyond the Battlefield

Beyond the Battlefield

File Size : 49,49 MB
Total View : 9065 Views
DOWNLOAD

Bringing together 12 essays and lectures spanning a period of fifteen years, Blight (history and black studies, Amherst College) explores three primary concerns

Race and Reunion

Race and Reunion

File Size : 20,20 MB
Total View : 8085 Views
DOWNLOAD

No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a

Frederick Douglass’ Civil War

Frederick Douglass’ Civil War

File Size : 73,73 MB
Total View : 1629 Views
DOWNLOAD

In this sensitive intellectual biography David W. Blight undertakes the first systematic analysis of the impact of the Civil War on Frederick Douglass' life and