Frederick Douglass: A Life in Documents

Frederick Douglass: A Life in Documents is a collection of essays by eminent historians presenting letters and speeches by Douglass from the Gilder Lehrman Collection. The documents, most in Douglass's own hand revealing powerful and poignant details of his life as a public figure and private man, are placed in context by such leading scholars as David W. Blight, Leigh Fought, James O. Horton, Lois E. Horton, Randall Kennedy, and Manisha Sinha, among others.

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Paperback, 96 pages, 33 illustrations

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