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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave, became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to write three versions of his autobiography over the course of his lifetime and publish his own newspaper. By the Civil War and during Reconstruction, Douglass became the most famed and widely traveled orator in the nation;...
Author
Series
Publisher
Windmill Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Combines an account of the life of antislavery activist Harriet Tubman with the author's memories of the quilts his grandmother made and of growing up in an African American family in the twentieth century.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xiv, 401 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This biography of the circle of women around Frederick Douglass promises to show the connections between his public and private life, as well as reveal connections among enslaved women, free black women, abolitionist circles, and nineteenth-century politics and culture in the North and South before and after the Civil War.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Almost 100 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat, Sojourner Truth was mistreated by a streetcar conductor. She took him to court--and won! Before she was Sojourner Truth, she was known simply as Belle. Born a slave in New York sometime around 1797, she was later sold and separated from her family. Even after she escaped from slavery, she knew her work was not yet done. She changed her name and traveled, inspiring everyone she met...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
48 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Sojourner Truth was born into slavery but possessed a mind and a vision that knew no bounds. So Tall Within traces her life from her painful childhood through her remarkable emancipation to her incredible leadership in the movement for rights for both women and African Americans.
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
191 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From his enslavement to freedom, Frederick Douglass was one of America's most extraordinary champions of liberty and equality. Throughout his long life, Douglass was also a man of profound religious conviction.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
138 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When, in 1879, a bust in his likeness was placed at the University of Rochester, Frederick Douglass wrote: "Incidents of this character do much amaze me. It is not, however, the height to which I have risen, but the depth from which I have come that amazes me." This biography tells the story of his ascent from slavery.
Author
Publisher
Cato Institute
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xvii, 143 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass rose to become a preeminent American intellectual and activist who, as a statesman, author, lecturer, and scholar, helped lead the fight against slavery and racial oppression. Unlike many other leading abolitionists, Douglass embraced the U.S. Constitution, believing it to be an essentially anti-slavery document guaranteeing that individual rights belonged to all Americans, of all races. Further, in his...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First Pegasus Books edition.
Physical Desc
493 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The incredible story of a forgotten hero of nineteenth century New York City who was a former slave, Yale scholar, minister, and international leader of the Antebellum abolitionist movement. At the age of 19, scared and illiterate, James Pennington escaped from slavery in 1827 and soon became one of the leading voices against slavery prior to the Civil War. Just ten years after his escape, Pennington was ordained to the ministry of the Congregational...
15) Truth: a novel
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
193 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A biographical history of influential African American pioneers and freedom fighters in the Midwest, including Sara Jane Woodson, Peter Clark, and Dred Scott.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
In an account of the friendship between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, readers get a glimpse into the shared bond between two great American leaders during a turbulent time in history.
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