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Title:
Frederick Douglass : a life in documents / general editor: James G. Basker ; editors: Justine Ahlstrom, Nicole Seary.
Publisher:
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
xiii, 80 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Subject:
Douglass, Frederick,--1818-1895.
Slaves--United States--Biography.
Abolitionists--United States--Biography.
African American abolitionists--Biography.
Antislavery movements--United States--History.
African Americans--History--19th century.
Essays.
Other Authors:
Basker, James G., editor.
Ahlstrom, Justine., editor.
Seary, Nicole A., editor.
Contents:
15. Reaching across the racial divide: Douglass to Benjamin Auld / David S. Reynolds. 2. Douglass and the US Constitution: the Dred Scott decision / Randall Kennedy -- 3. "I love you but hate slavery": Douglass writes to a former master / Lois E. Horton -- 4. Admiration and ambivalence: Frederick Douglass and John Brown / David W. Blight -- 5. "Your late lamented husband": Douglass to Mary Todd Lincoln / David W. Blight -- 6. "A vulgar and senseless prejudice": a protest against segregation in the North / Steven Mintz -- 7. Frederick Douglass and the "Merits of this fearful conflict" / David W. Blight -- 8. "The seed time of a great harvest": Douglass recalls fellow abolitionists / Quandra Prettyman -- 9. "One of the noblest wises and best men": Douglass on president Lincoln / James Oakes -- 10. "Post in the Centre of my house": Douglass mourns his wife Anna / Leigh K. Fought -- 11. Frederick Douglass and the "Progress of American liberty" / James O. Horton -- 12. "Hidden practices": Frederick Douglass on Black achievement in the South / Edward L. Ayers -- 13. Frederick Douglass on the disfranchisement of Blacks in the South / Lucas Morel -- 14. Frederick Douglass: an example for the twenty-first century / Noelle N. Trent -- 15. Reaching across the racial divide: Douglass to Benjamin Auld / David S. Reynolds.
ISBN:
1932821961
9781932821963
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1031377771
Locations:
UPAX334 -- Upper Iowa University - Henderson-Wilder Library (Fayette)
VKPE334 -- Oelwein Public Library (Oelwein)
BNPD611 -- Winterset Public Library (Winterset)

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