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"No one working on Douglass should leave home without a copy of
this book."-from the foreword by David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize
winning author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Drawing on
previously untapped sources, Young Frederick Douglass recreates
with fidelity and in convincing detail the background and early
life of the man who was to become "the gadfly of America's
conscience" and the undisputed spokesman for nineteenth-century
black Americans. With a new foreword by renowned Douglass scholar
David W. Blight, Dickson J. Preston's highly regarded biography
traces the life and times of Frederick Douglass from his birth on
Maryland's Eastern Shore in 1818 until 1838, when he escaped from
slavery to emerge upon the national scene. Astounding his white
contemporaries with his oratorical brilliance and intellectual
capabilities, Douglass dared to challenge the doctrine of white
supremacy on its own grounds. At the time of Douglass's death in
1895, one eulogist wrote that he was probably the best-known
American throughout the world since Abraham Lincoln.
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