The Life & Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape From Bondage and His Complete Life Story
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"Life and Times of Frederick Douglass" is the third and last autobiography of Frederick Douglass. In this finial memoir Douglas gives more details about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery than he did in his two previous autobiographies.
Frederick Douglass (1818 – 1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writings.
Contents:
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
Escape From Slavery
Life as a Freeman
Introduced to the Abolitionists
Recollections of Old Friends
One Hundred Conventions
Impressions Abroad
John Brown and Mrs. Stowe
Increasing Demands of the Slave Power
The Beginning of the End
Secession and War
Hope for the Nation
Vast Changes
Weighed in the Balance
"Time Makes All Things Even"
Incidents and Events
"Honor to Whom Honor"
Retrospection
A Grand Occasion
Doubts as to 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 Haïti
Continued Negotiations for the Môle St. Nicolas
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was an African American abolitionist, writer, statesman, and social reformer. Born in Maryland, he escaped slavery at the age of twenty with the help of his future wife Anna Murray Douglass, a free Black woman from Baltimore. He made his way through Delaware, Philadelphia, and New York City—where he married Murray—before settling in New Bedford, Massachusetts. In New England, he connected with the influential abolitionist community and joined the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, a historically black denomination which counted Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman among its members. In 1839, Douglass became a preacher and began his career as a captivating orator on religious, social, and political matters. He met William Lloyd Garrison, publisher of anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator, in 1841, and was deeply moved by his passionate abolitionism. As Douglass’ reputation and influence grew, he traveled across the country and eventually to Ireland and Great Britain to advocate on behalf of the American abolitionist movement, winning countless people over to the leading moral cause of the nineteenth century. He was often accosted during his speeches and was badly beaten at least once by a violent mob. His autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) was an immediate bestseller that detailed Douglass’ life in and escape from slavery, providing readers a firsthand description of the cruelties of the southern plantation system. Towards the end of his life, he became a fierce advocate for women’s rights and was the first Black man to be nominated for Vice President on the Equal Rights Party ticket, alongside Presidential candidate Victoria Woodhull. Arguably one of the most influential Americans of all time, Douglass led a life dedicated to democracy and racial equality.
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