Frederick Douglass : selected speeches and writings
"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, adapted, and supplemented with several important texts that Foner did not include, Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings presents the most significant, insightful, and elegant short works of Douglass's massive oeuvre."--Jacket
Speeches, addresses, etc., American
xviii, 789 pages ; 23 cm.
9781556523496, 9781556523526, 1556523491, 1556523521
41142940
From 1841 to the founding of The north star
From the founding of The north star to the Compromise of 1850
From the Compromise of 1850 to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
From the Kansas-Nebraska Act to the election of Abraham Lincoln
From secession to the Emancipation Proclamation
From the Emancipation Proclamation to the eve of Appomattox
Reconstruction, 1865-1876
The post-Reconstruction era, 1877-1895