Life and times of Frederick Douglass
Subtitle: his early life as a slave, his escape from bondage, and his complete history to the present time
By: Frederick Douglass, 1817?-1895
Contributors: Ruffin, George L. (George Lewis), 1834-1886; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans; Biography; African American abolitionists; Abolitionists; Slaves; Plantation life; History; Slavery; Social conditions; Fugitive slaves; Antislavery movements; Slaves' writings, American
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"Including his connection with the anti-slavery movement; his labors in Great Britain as well as in his own country; his experience in the conduct of an influential newspaper; his connection with the underground railroad; his relations with John Brown and the Harper's Ferry raid; his recruiting the 54th and 55th Mass. colored regiments; his interviews with Presidents Lincoln and Johnson; his appointment by Gen. Grant to accompany the Santo Domingo Commission; also to a seat in the council of the District of Columbia; his appointment as United States Marshal by President R. B. Hayes; also his appointment by President J. A. Garfield to be Recorder of Deeds in Washington; with many other interesting and important events of his most eventful life."

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Transcribed from: Life and times of Frederick Douglass / written by himself. His early life as a slave, his escape from bondage, and his complete history to the present time ; with an introduction by Mr. George L. Ruffin. Hartford, Conn. : Park Publishing Co., 1881. 516 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.

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