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    Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

    By David W. Blight

    In this “cinematic and deeply engaging” (The New York Times Book Review) biography, David Blight has drawn on new information held in a private collection that few other historian have consulted, as well as recently discovered issues of Douglass’s newspapers. “Absorbing and even moving…a brilliant book that speaks to our own time as well as Douglass’s” (The Wall Street Journal), Blight’s biography tells the fascinating story of Douglass’s two marriages and his complex extended family. “David Blight has written the definitive biography of Frederick Douglass…a powerful portrait of one of the most important American voices of the nineteenth century” (The Boston Globe).
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    Publisher:‎ Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition (January 7, )
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    SKU: Categories: Book Talks, BooksTags: book talk, Abolition, abolitionist, african american history, bio, biography, book talk, Civil Rights, diaries, frederick douglass, freedom, stories

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    As a young man Frederick Douglass (–) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major literary figures of his time.

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    Frederick Douglass

    Frederick Douglass INTRODUCTION
    Behold, I have put my words in your mouth . . .

    to pluck up and to break down,

    to destroy and to overthrow,

    to build and to plant.

    —JEREMIAH –10

    In his speech at the dedication of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, September 24, , President Barack Obama delivered what he termed a “clear-eyed view” of a tragic and triumphant history of black Americans in the United States. He spoke of a history that is central to the larger American story, one that is both contradictory and extraordinary. He likened the African American experience to the infinite depths of Shakespeare and Scripture. The “embrace of truth as best we can know it,” said the president, is “where real patriotism lies.” Naming some of the major pivots of the country’s past, Obama wrapped his central theme in a remarkable sentence about the Civil War era: “We’ve buttoned up our Union blues to join the fight for our freedom, we’ve railed against injustice for decade upon decade, a lifetime of struggle and progress and enlightenment that we see etched in Frederick Douglass’s mighty leonine gaze.”1

    How Americans react to Douglass’s gaze, indeed how we gaze back at his visage, and more important, how we read him, appropr

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