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Frederick Douglass : a noble life

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    Certified Accessible By: National Network for Equitable Library Service
    Running Time: 06:16 hrs
    Narrator: Mairi Fulcher
    Publisher:
    Centre for Equitable Library Access, 2024

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  • Author: Adler, David A.
    Contributor: Fulcher, Mairi
    Date:
    Created
    2011
    Summary:

    Biography of the abolitionist Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), a fugitive slave who became an author, lecturer, and advisor to President Lincoln. Discusses slavery in America and Douglass's escape, emancipation activities, support of women's rights, world travels, and writing career. Some descriptions of violence.

    Contents:
    • "I sobbed myself to sleep"
    • "Many children but no family"
    • "Why am I a slave?"
    • "The turning point"
    • "You rascal"
    • New Bedford: "I had no master"
    • The lecture circuit : "I can tell you what I have seen"
    • "From house to house, and from heart to heart
    • "What, to an American slave, is your 4th of July?"
    • Foreshadowed a conflict on a larger scale
    • "To arms!"
    • "A sacred effort"
    • "Young in liberty and old in slavery"
    • The African-American : "like a man in a morass"
    • "From first to last : a noble life"
    • Important dates in the life of Frederick Douglass.
    Genre:
    Biographies and autobiographies, Juvenile nonfiction, History and geography
    Subject(s): Abolitionists | African American abolitionists | Antislavery movements | Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 | United States
    Original Publisher: New York : Holiday House, c2010, Toronto, CNIB
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9780616581391, 0616581394