The life and times of Frederick Douglass
His third biography, in this thoroughly revised 1892 edition, is his most reflective, offering the perspective of a man at the end of a long life. He shares stories of his childhood, to his own battle for personal freedom.
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New York :
Cosimo Classics,
2008.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Douglass, Frederick, |d 1818-1895. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The life and times of Frederick Douglass / |c Frederick Douglass. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction [to the 1892 Edition -- First Part. -- Author's birth -- Removal from Grandmother's -- Troubles of childhood -- A general survey of the Slave Plantation -- A slaveholder's character -- A child's reasoning -- Luxuries at the Great House -- Characteristics of overseers -- Change of location -- Learning to read -- Growing in knowledge -- Religious nature awakened -- The vicissitudes of slave life -- Experience in St. Michaels -- Covey, the Negro Breaker -- Another pressure of the tyrant's vise -- The last flogging -- New relations and duties -- The runaway plot -- Apprenticeship life -- Escape from slavery -- Second Part. -- Escape from slavery -- Life as a freeman -- Introduction to the Abolitionists -- Recollections of old friends -- One hundred conventions -- Impressions abroad -- Triumphs and trials -- John Brown and Mrs. Stowe -- Increasing demand for slave power -- The beginning of the end -- Secession and war -- Hope for the Nation -- Vast changes -- Living and learning -- Weighed in the balance -- "Time makes all things even" -- Incidents and events -- "Honor to whom honor" -- Retrospection -- Appendix -- Third Part. -- Later life -- A grand occasion -- Doubts as the Garfield's course -- Recorder of deeds -- President Cleveland's administration -- The Supreme Court decision -- Defeat of James G. Blaine -- European tour -- Continuation of European tour -- The campaign of 1888 -- Administration of President Harrison -- Minister to Haiti -- Continued negotiations for the Môle St. Nicholas. | |
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