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Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 180 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Radicals. Agitators. Troublemakers. Liberators. Called many names, the abolitionists tore the nation apart in order to create a more perfect union. Men and women, black and white, Northerners and Southerners, poor and wealthy, these passionate anti-slavery activists fought body and soul in the most important civil rights crusade in American history"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 517 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a portrait of five extraordinary figures--Ernest Shackleton, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Rachel Carson--to illuminate how great leaders are made in times of adversity and the diverse skills they summon in order to prevail.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
This story imagines what it was like when Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass got together for a cup of tea and discussed their struggle for civil rights.
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Celebrate Black history month and President's day with these videos: Lincoln and Douglass: an American friendship / by Nikki Giovanni ; ill. by Bryan Collier. The story of an unusual, historic friendship between two great American leaders; Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass; John, Paul, George & Ben / written and ill. by Lane Smith. A humorous and factual history of five lads who grew to become the founding fathers of our country; The journey...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books, a division of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
Frederick Douglass was a self-educated slave in the South who grew up to become an icon. He was a leader of the abolitionist movement, a celebrated writer, an esteemed speaker, and a social reformer, proving that, as he said, "Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The absorbing narrative of Frederick Douglass's heated struggle with President Andrew Johnson reveals a new perspective on Reconstruction's demise. When Andrew Johnson rose to the presidency after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, African Americans were optimistic that Johnson would pursue aggressive federal policies for Black equality. Just a year earlier, Johnson had cast himself as a "Moses" for the Black community. Frederick Douglass, the country's...
74) The hammer and the anvil: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the end of slavery in America
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 150 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Zimmerman reprises his partnership with Vansant from The Vietnam War: A Graphic History to present an account of two of the most important figures of 19th-century U.S. history: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
80 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores the childhood, character, and influential events that shaped the life of this former slave who went on to become an abolitionist and advisor to Abraham Lincoln.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xviii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the crucial early years of the Abolition movement, the Boston branch of the cause seized upon the star power of the eloquent ex-slave Frederick Douglass to make its case for slaves' freedom. Journalist William Lloyd Garrison promoted emancipation while Garrison loyalist Maria Weston Chapman, known as "the Contessa," raised money and managed Douglass's speaking tour from her Boston townhouse. Conventional histories have seen Douglass's departure...
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