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1881
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Boston, 1893
Frederick Douglass's cause was freedom. He was, variously, abolitionist, advocate for equal rights of African Americans and women, newspaper editor and government official. He wrote his first autobiography in 1845 after audiences who had heard his eloquent anti-slavery speeches doubted that he had ever been a slave. In 1847, he launched The North Star, a weekly abolitionist newspaper in Rochester, NY. "Life and Times of Frederick Douglass" was his third and final autobiography, first published in 1881. This is an 1893 reprint. |