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Zusatztext “Fought's work contributes to the excavation of Douglass's career while also offering an important contribution to the social and political history of abolitionism.”-Jonathan Lande, Civil War Monitor Informationen zum Autor Leigh Fought is Associate Professor of History at LeMoyne College. She is the author of Southern Womanhood and Slavery: A Biography of Louisa S. McCord and an editor of The Frederick Douglass Papers: Series Three: Correspondence, Volume 1: 1842-1852. Klappentext A biographical study of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass through his relationships with the women in his life that reveals the man from both a political/public and private perspective. Zusammenfassung A biographical study of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass through his relationships with the women in his life that reveals the man from both a political/public and private perspective. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: "A True Mother's Heart" Chapter 2: Anna Murray, Mrs. Frederick Douglass, 1810-1848 Chapter 3: "The Cause of the Slave Has Been Peculiarly Woman's Cause," 1841-1847 Chapter 4: "The Pecuniary Burdens," 1847-1853 Chapter 5 "I Wont Have Her in My House," 1848-1858 Chapter 6: The Woman's Rights Man and his Daughter, 1848-1861 Chapter 7: Principle and Expediency, 1861-1870 Chapter 8: "Her True Worth," 1866-1883 Chapter 9: Helen Pitts, Mrs. Frederick Douglass, 1837-1890 Chapter 10: Legacies, 1891-1895 Epilogue: Afterlife, 1895-1903 Appendix: Family Trees Abbreviations Used in Notes Notes Index
