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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813407803321

Autore

Douglass Frederick <1818-1895.>

Titolo

Frederick Douglass : selected speeches and writings / / edited by Philip S. Foner ; abridged and adapted by Yuval Taylor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : Lawrence Hill Books, 1999

ISBN

1-55652-349-1

1-61374-145-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 789 p. ; ; 24 cm.)

Collana

Library of Black America

Altri autori (Persone)

FonerPhilip Sheldon <1910-1994.>

TaylorYuval

Disciplina

973.8/092

Soggetti

Antislavery movements - United States - History - 19th century

Enslaved persons - United States - Social conditions - 19th century

African Americans - Civil rights - History - 19th century

Speeches, addresses, etc., American

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This book is an abridgement and adaptation of Philip S. Foner's The life and writings of Frederick Douglass, originally published in New York in five volumes, 1950-1975"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. From 1841 to the founding of The north star -- pt. 2. From the founding of The north star to the Compromise of 1850 -- pt. 3. From the Compromise of 1850 to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 -- pt. 4. From the Kansas-Nebraska Act to the election of Abraham Lincoln -- pt. 5. From secession to the Emancipation Proclamation -- pt. 6. From the Emancipation Proclamation to the eve of Appomattox -- pt. 7. Reconstruction, 1865-1876 -- pt. 8. The post-reconstruction era, 1877-1895.

Sommario/riassunto

One of the greatest African American leaders and one of the most brilliant minds of his time, Frederick Douglass spoke and wrote with unsurpassed eloquence on almost all the major issues confronting the American people during his lifeĀ—from the abolition of slavery to women's rights, from the Civil War to lynching, from American patriotism to black nationalism. Between 1950 and 1975, Philip S. Foner collected the most important of Douglass's hundreds of speeches, letters, articles, and editorials into an impressive five-volume



set, now long out of print. Abridged and condensed into one volume, and supplemented with several important texts that Foner did not include, this compendium presents the most significant, insightful, and elegant short works of Douglass's massive oeuvre.