Published in the bicentenary year of Frederick Douglass’s birth and in a Black Lives Matter era, this 2018 anniversary edition of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, presents new research into his life as an activist and as an author. As a revolutionary reformer who traveled in Scotland, Ireland, England, and Wales as well as the US, Douglass published many foreign language editions of his Narrative. While there have been many Douglasses over the decades and even centuries, the Frederick Douglass we need now is no iconic, mythic or legendary self-made man but a fallible, mortal, and human individual: a husband, father, brother, and son. His rallying cry lives on to inspire today’s activism: “Agitate! Agitate! Agitate!”
Recognizing that Douglass was bought and sold on the northern abolitionist podium no less than on the southern auction block, this edition introduces readers to Douglass’s multiple declarations of independence. Douglass’s Narrative appears alongside his private correspondence as well as his early speeches and writings in which he relied on powerful language to do justice to the “grim horrors of slavery.” This volume also traces the activism and authorship of Frederick Douglass not in isolation but in the context of the reformist work of his wife, Anna Murray, and his daughters and sons.
Published in the bicentenary year of Frederick Douglass’s birth and in a Black Lives Matter era, this 2018 anniversary edition of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, presents new research into his life as an activist and as an author. As a revolutionary reformer who traveled in Scotland, Ireland, England, and Wales as well as the US, Douglass published many foreign language editions of his Narrative. While there have been many Douglasses over the decades and even centuries, the Frederick Douglass we need now is no iconic, mythic or legendary self-made man but a fallible, mortal, and human individual: a husband, father, brother, and son. His rallying cry lives on to inspire today’s activism: “Agitate! Agitate! Agitate!”
Recognizing that Douglass was bought and sold on the northern abolitionist podium no less than on the southern auction block, this edition introduces readers to Douglass’s multiple declarations of independence. Douglass’s Narrative appears alongside his private correspondence as well as his early speeches and writings in which he relied on powerful language to do justice to the “grim horrors of slavery.” This volume also traces the activism and authorship of Frederick Douglass not in isolation but in the context of the reformist work of his wife, Anna Murray, and his daughters and sons.
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
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| ISBN-13: | 9781933486000 |
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| Publisher: | Core Knowledge Foundation |
| Publication date: | 01/01/2006 |
| Edition description: | New Edition |
| Pages: | 178 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.50(w) x 1.50(h) x 9.50(d) |
| Age Range: | 10 - 14 Years |
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