Frederick Douglass
His Most Complete Collection of Writings, Works, & Speeches with Illustrations
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CONTENTS
The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass, a Slave My Bondage and My Freedom
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Many Additional Assorted Writings and Speeches
Frederick Douglass, born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 1818 - February 20, 1895, was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing. He stood as a living counter example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves did not have the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Many Northerners also found it hard to believe that such a great orator had been a slave. Douglass wrote several autobiographies, eloquently describing his life as a slave, and his struggles to be free.
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Extracts from writings and speeches by the 19th-century abolitionist are paired with Alcorn's dramatic linocuts. Melba Patillo Beals, who as a teenager in 1957 became a key player in a critical civil rights struggle, has abridged for young readers her affecting adult title Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High School (Pocket/Archway, paper , ages 11-up ). The original edition was reviewed in Nonfiction Forecasts, March 28, 1994. . African American children star in one new and one reissued title added to HarperFestival's Let's Read Aloud series: Eloise Greenfield's Honey, I Love, originally published in 1978, receives homey new illustrations by Jan Spivey Gilchrist, who also provides the artwork for Greenfield's bucolic On My Horse ( each, ages 2-5, 20p, ; -00583-5, Jan.).
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