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The narrative and selected writings / Frederick Douglass ; edited, with an introduction, by Michael Meyer

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Modern Library college editionsPublication details: New York : Modern Library, c1984Edition: First editionDescription: xxxiii, 391 pages ; 19 cmISBN:
  • 0394329813
  • 9780394329819
  • 0075543753
  • 9780075543756
Other title:
  • Frederick Douglass : the narrative and selected writings
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Narrative and selected writings.DDC classification:
  • 973.8/092/4 B 19
LOC classification:
  • E449 .D7455 1984
Contents:
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
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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

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