The narrative and selected writings /
Douglass, Frederick,1818-1895
The narrative and selected writings / Frederick Douglass : the narrative and selected writings Frederick Douglass ; edited, with an introduction, by Michael Meyer - First edition - New York : Modern Library, c1984 - xxxiii, 391 pages ; 19 cm - Modern Library college editions . - Modern Library college editions .
Includes bibliographical references
Introduction -- Suggested readings -- A note on the texts -- Autobiographies -- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass -- My bondage and my freedom. The Master's house - The slave's right to steal - Chapter XVII: the last flogging - Floggable offenses - The Liberator and William Lloyd Garrison - Abolitionist lecturer - Chapter XXV: various incidents -- Life and times of Frederick Douglass. Details of his escape from slavery - John Brown - Harriet Beecher Stowe and free blacks - John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry - Black soldiers and the union - A meeting with his former master - Conclusion to the 1881 edition - A rationale for the 1892 edition -- Selected writings. A comparison of the treatment of blacks in the United States and Great Britain - In defense of purchasing freedom - On the union, religion, and the constitution - Establishing the North Start - North Star: statement of purpose - Black churches and segregation - American colorphobia - Women's rights - Letter to his former master - The evils of war - On being seen walking with two white women - The heroic slave [fiction] - Free blacks must learn trades - Three kinds of abolitionists - Resolutions against capital punishment - Contradictions in American civilization - Lincoln's new presidency - What should be done with emancipated slaves? - The progress of blacks twenty years after emancipation - The future of blacks in the United States
0394329813 9780394329819 0075543753 9780075543756
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
African Americans--History--Sources
African American abolitionists--Biography
Abolitionists--United States--Biography
Biography.
History.
Sources.
E449 / .D7455 1984
973.8/092/4 B
The narrative and selected writings / Frederick Douglass : the narrative and selected writings Frederick Douglass ; edited, with an introduction, by Michael Meyer - First edition - New York : Modern Library, c1984 - xxxiii, 391 pages ; 19 cm - Modern Library college editions . - Modern Library college editions .
Includes bibliographical references
Introduction -- Suggested readings -- A note on the texts -- Autobiographies -- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass -- My bondage and my freedom. The Master's house - The slave's right to steal - Chapter XVII: the last flogging - Floggable offenses - The Liberator and William Lloyd Garrison - Abolitionist lecturer - Chapter XXV: various incidents -- Life and times of Frederick Douglass. Details of his escape from slavery - John Brown - Harriet Beecher Stowe and free blacks - John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry - Black soldiers and the union - A meeting with his former master - Conclusion to the 1881 edition - A rationale for the 1892 edition -- Selected writings. A comparison of the treatment of blacks in the United States and Great Britain - In defense of purchasing freedom - On the union, religion, and the constitution - Establishing the North Start - North Star: statement of purpose - Black churches and segregation - American colorphobia - Women's rights - Letter to his former master - The evils of war - On being seen walking with two white women - The heroic slave [fiction] - Free blacks must learn trades - Three kinds of abolitionists - Resolutions against capital punishment - Contradictions in American civilization - Lincoln's new presidency - What should be done with emancipated slaves? - The progress of blacks twenty years after emancipation - The future of blacks in the United States
0394329813 9780394329819 0075543753 9780075543756
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
African Americans--History--Sources
African American abolitionists--Biography
Abolitionists--United States--Biography
Biography.
History.
Sources.
E449 / .D7455 1984
973.8/092/4 B