num_pages: 504
description: “A masterpiece….[W]ill rightfully assume its place as the standard biography of a truly great figure in the nation’s past.” ― New York Newsday Former slave, orator, journalist, autobiographer; revolutionary on behalf of a just America, Frederick Douglass was a towering figure, at once consummately charismatic and flawed. His Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) galvanized the antislavery movement and is one of the truly seminal works of African-American literature. In this masterful and compelling biography, William S. McFeely captures the many sides of Douglass―his boyhood on the Chesapeake; his self-education; his rebellion and rising expectations; his marriage, affairs, and intense friendships; his bitter defeat and transcendent courage―and recreates the high drama of a turbulent era.
language: English
title: Frederick Douglass
titlecomplete: Frederick Douglass
characters: Frederick Douglass
genres: History, Race, American History, African American, Civil War, Biography Memoir, Biography, African American Literature, American, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 319
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Biography or Autobiography, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Lincoln Prize, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Civil War and Reconstruction Book Award
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company