Frederick Douglass: A Biography

ISBN-13: 9781138523784 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 277 str.

Booker T. Washington

Opis

This biography, written by Booker T. Washington, one of most important post-Civil War African-American thinkers, is an account of the life and career of Frederick Douglass. The biographical account is set within a nation struggling to solve one of the most excruciating social problems that any modern people facedslavery

Spis treści

1: Frederick Douglass, the Slave; 2: Back to Plantation Life; 3: Escape from Slavery: Learning the Ways of Freedom; 4: Beginning of His Public Career; 5: Slavery and Anti-Slavery; 6: Seeks Refuge in England; 7: Home Again as a Freeman—New Problems and New Triumphs; 8: Free Coloured People and Colonisation; 9: The Underground Railway and the Fugitive Slave Law; 10: Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Brown; 11: Forebodings of the Crisis; 12: Douglass’s Services in the Civil War; 13: Early Problems of Freedom; 14: Sharing the Responsibilities and Honours of Freedom; 15: Further Evidences of Popular Esteem, With Glimpses into the Past; 16: Final Honours to the Living and Tributes to the Dead

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Booker T. Washington