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by Dickson J. Preston; Foreword by David W. Blight
This highly regarded biography traces the life and times of Frederick Douglass, from his birth on Maryland's Eastern Shore in 1818 to 1838, when he escaped from slavery to emerge upon the national scene.
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Drawing on previously untapped sources, Young Frederick Douglass recreates with fidelity and in convincing detail the background and early life of the man who was to become "the gadfly of America's conscience" and the undisputed spokesman for nineteenth-century black Americans.
This highly regarded biography traces the life and times of Frederick Douglass from his birth on Maryland's Eastern Shore in 1818 until 1838, when he escaped from slavery to emerge upon the national scene. At the time of Douglass's death in 1895, one eulogist wrote that he was probably the best-known American throughout the world since Abraham Lincoln.
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- Title Young Frederick Douglass
- Author Dickson J. Preston; Foreword by David W. Blight
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781421425948 / 1421425947
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Geographic Orientation: Maryland
- Topical: Black History
- Topical: Civil War
- Library of Congress subjects Abolitionists - United States, Slavery - Maryland
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017057008
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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