Young Frederick Douglass

Informationen zum Autor Dickson J. Preston (1914–1985) worked for more than thirty years as a newspaper reporter and editor. He lived in Talbot County on Maryland's Eastern Shore, not far from the birthplace of Frederick Douglass. David W. Blight is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom , and the Class of 1954 Professor of American History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. Klappentext Drawing on previously untapped sources, Young Frederick Douglass recreates with fidelity and in convincing detail the background and early life of the man who was to become "the gadfly of America's conscience" and the undisputed spokesman for nineteenth-century black Americans.This highly regarded biography traces the life and times of Frederick Douglass from his birth on Maryland's Eastern Shore in 1818 until 1838, when he escaped from slavery to emerge upon the national scene. At the time of Douglass's death in 1895, one eulogist wrote that he was probably the best-known American throughout the world since Abraham Lincoln. Zusammenfassung At the time of Douglass's death in 1895! one eulogist wrote that he was probably the best-known American throughout the world since Abraham Lincoln.

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• Authors: Dickson J Preston, Dickson J. Preston, Dickson J. (Son Dickson H Preston) Preston, Dickson J./ Blight Preston
• Assisted by: David W. Blight (Foreword)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781421425948
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-2594-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, Familie und Gesundheit, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Ethnic Studies, HEALTH & FITNESS / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, Social & cultural history, USA / Geschichte (bis 1945), HISTORY / United States / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), c 1800 to c 1900, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Biography: historical, political and military, Black & Asian Studies, HISTORY / African American & Black, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / African American & Black, abolition;Maryland;history of slavery;Prophet of Freedom