Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and WritingsOne 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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Contents
To William Lloyd Garrison November 8 1842 | 5 |
My Slave Experience in Maryland speech before | 11 |
To William Lloyd Garrison January 27 1846 | 27 |
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| Title | Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings Library of Black America |
| Author | Frederick Douglass |
| Editors | Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor |
| Edition | abridged |
| Publisher | Lawrence Hill Books, 1999 |
| ISBN | 1556523521, 9781556523526 |
| Length | 789 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877) |
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