The Portable Frederick Douglass
$39.88
- Paperback
624 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2016
Summary
The Portable Frederick Douglass: A Timeless Voice for Justice
A newly edited collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leader. This compact volume offers a full course on the remarkable, diverse career of Frederick Douglass, letting us hear once more a necessary historical figure whose guiding voice is needed now as urgently as ever.
Edited by renowned scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Pulitzer Prize-nominated historian…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143106814 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143106813 |
| Author: | Frederick Douglass, Henry Louis Gates, Jr, John Stauffer |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 624 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2016 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 192mm x 128mm x 36mm |
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Critics Review
“indispensable (…) a timelessly rewarding read in its totality” –Maria Popova
“indispensable (…) a timelessly rewarding read in its totality”—Maria Popova
About The Author
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was an antislavery lecturer, a journalist, a publisher, and the bestselling author of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, followed by My Bondage and My Freedom, and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.
John Stauffer (editor) is a professor of literature and African American studies and chair of the History of American Civilization program at Harvard. His eight books include The Black Hearts of Men- Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race, Giants- The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, and State of Jones, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
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