Frederick Douglass
Author
Series
Collier books volume BS74
Description
Raised as a plantation slave who was taught to read and write by one of his owners, Frederick Douglass became a brilliant writer, eloquent orator, and major participant in the stuggle of African-Americans for freedom and equality. In this engrossing, first-hand narrative originally published in 1845, he vividly recounts early years of physical abuse, deprivation and tragedy; his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom, abolitionist campaigns,...
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
"The Oxford Frederick Douglass Reader collects in one volume the most outstanding and representative work from Frederick Douglass's fifty-year writing career, including all the major genres in which he worked: autobiography, journalism, oratory, and fiction. The Reader contains the following classic texts in their entirety: the landmark fugitive slave narrative Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845); the consummate anti-slavery...
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Collects three novels, including "The Heroic Slave" which provides a fictional account of the rebellion led by Madison Washington on the slave ship "Creole;" "Clotel" which chronicles the experiences of the author who was an African-American slave born in Lexington, Kentucky; and "Our Nig" in which the author uses her own experiences to relate the fictitious story about the struggles of Frado, the daughter of a white mother and black father.