Frederick Douglass a noble life
When, in 1879, a bust in his likeness was placed at the University of Rochester, Frederick Douglass wrote: "Incidents of this character do much amaze me. It is not, however, the height to which I have risen, but the depth from which I have come that amazes me." This biography tells the sto...
| Main Author: | Adler, David A. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Holiday House,
c2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- "I sobbed myself to sleep"
- "Many children but no family"
- "Why am I a slave?"
- "The turning point"
- "You rascal"
- New Bedford: "I had no master"
- The lecture circuit : "I can tell you what I have seen"
- "From house to house, and from heart to heart
- "What, to an American slave, is your 4th of July?"
- Foreshadowed a conflict on a larger scale
- "To arms!"
- "A sacred effort"
- "Young in liberty and old in slavery"
- The African-American : "like a man in a morass"
- "From first to last : a noble life"
- Important dates in the life of Frederick Douglass.