Previously unseen speeches, letters, autobiographies, and
photographs of Frederick Douglass and his sons, Lewis Henry,
Frederick Jr. and Charles Remond Douglass, from the Walter O. Evans
collection While the many public lives of Frederick Douglass - as
the representative 'fugitive slave', autobiographer, orator,
abolitionist, reformer, philosopher and statesman - are lionised
worldwide, If I Survive sheds light on the private life of Douglass
the family man. For the first time, this book provides readers with
a collective biography mapping the activism, authorship and
artistry of Douglass and his sons, Lewis Henry, Frederick Jr. and
Charles Remond Douglass. In one volume, the history of the Douglass
family appears alongside full colour facsimile reproductions of
their over 80 previously unpublished speeches, letters,
autobiographies and photographs held in the Walter O. Evans
Collection. All of life can be found within these pages: romance,
hope, despair, love, life, death, war, protest, politics, art, and
friendship. Working together and against a changing backdrop of US
slavery, Civil War and Reconstruction, the Douglass family fought
for a new 'dawn of freedom'. Marking the 200th anniversary of
Frederick Douglass' birth, this first collective history and
comprehensive collection of the Douglass family writings and
portraits sheds new light not only on Douglass as a freedom-fighter
and family man but on the lives and works of Lewis Henry, Frederick
Jr., and Charles Remond. As civil rights protesters, essayists,
autobiographers, and orators in their own right, they each played a
vital role in the 'struggles for the cause of liberty' of their
father. As published here, each of their original writings and
portraits is accompanied by an explanatory essay and in-depth
scholarly annotatations as well as a detailed bibliography.
Recognising that the Frederick Douglass that is needed in a
twenty-first century Black Lives Matter era is no infallible icon
but a mortal individual, If I Survive situates the lives and works
of Douglass and his family within the social, political, historical
and cultural contexts in which they lived and worked. Each unafraid
to die for the cause, they dedicated their lives to the
"emancipation of the slave" and to social justice by every means
necessary. The Foreword is written by Robert S. Levine and the
Afterword is authored by Kim F. Hall.
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