
Frederick Douglass
Selected Speeches and Writings
Chicago Review Press
Published on 1. April 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
808 pages
978-1-55652-352-6 (ISBN)
Description
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 life-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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Target group
College/higher education
US School Grade: Twelfth Grade and over, Interest Age: From 12 to 17 years
Edition type
Abridged edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 43 mm
Weight
1150 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55652-352-6 (9781556523526)
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Philip S. Foner wrote and edited more than 100 books, including The Black Panthers Speak, The History of Black Americans, and the 10-volume The History of the Labor Movement in the United States. Yuval Taylor edited I Was Born a Slave: An Anthology of Classic Slave Narratives; as editor of Lawrence Hill Books, he directs the Library of Black America series. He lives in Chicago.