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Author:
Root, Damon, author.
Title:
A glorious liberty : Frederick Douglass and the fight for an anti-slavery constitution / Damon Root.
Publisher:
Potomac Books
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
186 pages
Subject:
Douglass, Frederick,--1818-1895.
United States.--Constitution.--13th Amendment.
United States.--Constitution.--14th Amendment.
United States.--Constitution.--15th Amendment.
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.
African American abolitionists.
Abolitionists--United States.
Constitutional history--United States.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Frederick Douglass's Constitution -- "A Faithful Disciple of William Lloyd Garrison" -- "An Anti-Slavery Instrument" -- "This Hell-Black Judgment of the Supreme Court" -- "Men of Color, to Arms!" -- "One Nation, One Country, One Citizenship" -- A Legacy of Liberty.
Summary:
"A review of Douglass's ideas about free labor and constitutional liberty in order to understand the origins and meanings of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, each of which grew out of the anti-slavery movement that Douglass did so much to shape"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
1640122354
9781640122352
LCCN:
2019058143
Locations:
CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)

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