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Douglass - The Lost Autobiography (Paperback)
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Douglass - The Lost Autobiography (Paperback)
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Loot Price R358
Discovery Miles 3 580
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(Publisher's Note: The author failed to fold my laundry in the
proper manner, so I am letting the cat out of the bag-these are not
actual biographies. They are closer to maps of the author's ego
than they are texts about the namesakes adorning their covers. So,
if you want to read about Freud or Douglass or Hitler I suggest you
do so elsewhere.) Frederick Douglass stands as one of American
history's most extraordinary figures, overcoming the evils of
slavery and racial construction by force of will and grit. As a
fervent abolitionist, gifted orator, and sagacious editor and
author, he became one of the most outspoken and influential social
reformers of his time. During his life, he published three
autobiographies chronicling his struggle from childhood to
adulthood, from slave to free man, from ignorance to
power-knowledge. And yet the full narrative of the life of
Frederick Douglass, contrary to popular belief, has been incomplete
... until now. Recently recovered on an archeological dig in
Ireland, where Douglass lectured extensively in the 1840s, this
heretofore "lost" autobiography marks the fourth and final work in
the library of his selfhood. Tying together loose ends in the
previous three autobiographies while exposing remarkable, often
disturbing secrets about his private life, Douglass portrays
himself not only as a man of words and character but as a kind of
anachronistic hipster and proto-beatnik. There is a reason this
volume never saw publication during his lifetime. A reason-and a
method.
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