Frederick Douglass : a noble life
2010
Book
When, in 1879, a bust in his likeness was placed at the University of Rochester, Frederick Douglass wrote: "Incidents of this character do much amaze me. It is not, however, the height to which I have risen, but the depth from which I have come that amazes me." This biography tells the story of his ascent from slavery.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780823420568
- 0823420566
Edition: First edition.
Description: 138 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-132) and index.
- A Junior Library Guild selection
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.
LCCN: 2009029970
Control Number: 813744
Publisher: New York : Holiday House, [2010]Subjects:
- Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
- Abolitionists -- United States -- Juvenile biography.
- African American abolitionists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
- African American abolitionists -- Juvenile biography.
- Antislavery movements -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Juvenile literature.
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
Genre: Biographies.