Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and WritingsPhilip S. Foner, Yuval Taylor Chicago Review Press, 1 apr 2000 - 808 pagine One 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. |
Sommario
From the Founding of The North Star to the Compromise of 1850 | 89 |
From the Compromise of 1850 to the KansasNebraska Act of 1854 | 151 |
From the KansasNebraska Act to the Election of Abraham Lincoln | 273 |
From Secession to the Emancipation Proclamation | 423 |
From the Emancipation Proclamation to the Eve of Appomattox | 515 |
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