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The biography traces the subject's journey from enslavement through escape and self-education to national prominence, recounting plantation life, apprenticeship, flight to the North and refuge in England, and emergence as an eloquent abolitionist speaker and organizer. It examines his positions on colonization, the Underground Railroad, and the Fugitive Slave Law, chronicles wartime advocacy for the enlistment of Black troops, and follows his efforts during Reconstruction and later public honors, situating personal episodes within the wider political and social debates over emancipation, citizenship, and the long struggle to secure civil rights.

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Title: Frederick Douglass

Author: Booker T. Washington

Release date: January 2, 2023 [eBook #69692]
Most recently updated: October 19, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: George W. Jacobs & company, 1906

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AMERICAN CRISIS BIOGRAPHIES
Edited by
Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer, Ph. D.
The American Crisis Biographies

Edited by Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer, Ph.D. With the counsel and advice of Professor John B. McMaster, of the University of Pennsylvania.

Each 12mo, cloth, with frontispiece portrait. Price $1.25 net; by mail, $1.37.

These biographies will constitute a complete and comprehensive history of the great American sectional struggle in the form of readable and authoritative biography. The editor has enlisted the co-operation of many competent writers, as will be noted from the list given below. An interesting feature of the undertaking is that the series is to be impartial, Southern writers having been assigned to Southern subjects and Northern writers to Northern subjects, but all will belong to the younger generation of writers, thus assuring freedom from any suspicion of wartime prejudice. The Civil War will not be treated as a rebellion, but as the great event in the history of our nation, which, after forty years, it is now clearly recognized to have been.

Now ready:

 
Abraham Lincoln. By Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer.
 
Thomas H. Benton. By Joseph M. Rogers.
 
David G. Farragut. By John R. Spears.
 
William T. Sherman. By Edward Robins.
 
Frederick Douglass. By Booker T. Washington.
 
Judah P. Benjamin. By Pierce Butler.
 
Robert E. Lee. By Philip Alexander Bruce.
 
Jefferson Davis. By Prof. W. E. Dodd.
 
Alexander H. Stephens. By Louis Pendleton.
 
John C. Calhoun. By Gaillard Hunt.

In preparation:

 
Daniel Webster. By Prof. C. H. Van Tyne.
 
John Quincy Adams. By Brooks Adams.
 
John Brown. By W. E. Burghardt Dubois.
 
William Lloyd Garrison. By Lindsay Swift.
 
Charles Sumner. By Prof. George H. Haynes.
 
William H. Seward. By Edward Everett Hale, Jr.
 
Stephen A. Douglas. By Prof. Henry Parker Willis.
 
Thaddeus Stevens. By Prof. J. A. Woodburn.
 
Andrew Johnson. By Prof. Walter L. Fleming.
 
Henry Clay. By Thomas H. Clay.
 
Ulysses S. Grant. By Prof. Franklin S. Edmonds.
 
Edwin M. Stanton. By Edwin S. Corwin.
 
“Stonewall” Jackson. By Henry Alexander White.
 
Jay Cooke. By Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer.
AMERICAN CRISIS BIOGRAPHIES

Frederick Douglass

by
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
Author of “Up from Slavery,” “Working with the Hands,” etc.
PHILADELPHIA
GEORGE W. JACOBS & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1906, by
George W. Jacobs & Company
Published, February, 1907