| Frederick Douglass Contributor(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1542625971 ISBN-13: 9781542625975 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $8.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Social Activists |
| Physical Information: 0.14" H x 6" W x 9" (0.22 lbs) 66 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: " ... From this night of slavery Douglass emerged, passed through the limbo of prejudice which he encountered as a freeman, and took his place in history. "As few of the world's great men have ever had so checkered and diversified a career," says Henry Wilson, "so it may at least be plausibly claimed that no man represents in himself more conflicting ideas and interests. His life is, in itself, an epic which finds few to equal it in the realms of either romance or reality." It was, after all, no misfortune for humanity that Frederick Douglass felt the iron hand of slavery; for his genius changed the drawbacks of color and condition into levers by which he raised himself and his people..." |