This biography, written by Booker T. Washington, one of most
important post-Civil War African-American thinkers, is an account
of the life and career of Frederick Douglass. The biographical
account is set within a nation struggling to solve one of the most
excruciating social problems that any modern people faced--slavery.
This volume encompasses the experiences of Frederick Douglass as a
slave and then as a public man, through the anti-slavery movement,
the Civil War, and the period of reconstruction. Douglass's fame as
a speaker was secure. His position as the champion of an oppressed
race was, in his own generation, as picturesque as it was unique.
From the blight of slavery, Douglass emerged, passed through, and
triumphed over the lingering prejudice that he encountered as a
freeman. Like the author of his biography, Douglass seized his
place in history. His life is an epic, one that finds few to equal
it in the realms of either romance or reality. Douglass was a role
model to the author, and his early narrative was a guide to black
and white people alike. Among the subjects covered are the Genesis
of the Anti-Slavery Agitation, the Fugitive Slave Law, the
Underground Railway, the American Colonization Society, the
Conflict in Kansas for Free Soil, the John Brown Raid, the Civil
War, the Enlistment of Colored Troops, and Reconstruction.
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