Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage and His Complete Life Story - Douglass, Frederick
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"Life and Times of Frederick Douglass" is the third and last autobiography of Frederick Douglass. In this finial memoir Douglas gives more details about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery than he did in his two previous autobiographies. Frederick Douglass (1818 - 1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Contents: - Author's Birth -…mehr

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"Life and Times of Frederick Douglass" is the third and last autobiography of Frederick Douglass. In this finial memoir Douglas gives more details about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery than he did in his two previous autobiographies. Frederick Douglass (1818 - 1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Contents: - Author's Birth - Removal From Grandmother's - Troubles of Childhood - A General Survey of the Slave Plantation - A Slaveholder's Character - A Child's Reasoning - Luxuries at the Great House - Characteristics of Overseers - Change of Location - Learning to Read - Growing in Knowledge - Religious Nature Awakened - The Vicissitudes of Slave Life - Experience in St. Michaels - Covey, the Negro Breaker - Another Pressure of the Tyrant's Vise - The Last Flogging - New Relations and Duties - The Runaway Plot - Escape From Slavery - Life as a Freeman - Introduced to the Abolitionists - Recollections of Old Friends - One Hundred Conventions - Impressions Abroad - Triumphs and Trials - John Brown and Mrs. Stowe - Increasing Demands of the Slave Power - The Beginning of the End - Secession and War - Hope for the Nation - Vast Changes - Living and Learning - Weighed in the Balance - "Time Makes All Things Even" - Incidents and Events - "Honor to Whom Honor" - Retrospection - Later Life - A Grand Occasion - Doubts as to Garfield's Course - Recorder of Deeds - President Cleveland's Administration - The Supreme Court Decision - Defeat of James G. Blaine - European Tour - Continuation of European Tour - The Campaign of 1888 - Administration of President Harrison - Minister to Haïti - Continued Negotiations for the Môle St. Nicolas