Frederick Douglass
Subtitle: America's prophet
By: D.H. Dilbeck
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9781469636184
Subjects: Religion; African American abolitionists; African American orators; Biography
Description: "Frederick Douglass was born into slavery on Maryland's Eastern Shore and became an extraordinary champion of liberty and equality. Throughout his long life, Douglass was also a man of profound religious conviction. ... With an eye toward explaining how Douglass's religious beliefs shaped his influential public career, Dilbeck retells the story of Douglass's life"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A voice crying in the wilderness of Christian slaveholding America; title: The seeking slave, 1818-1838; title: God and slavery on the Eastern Shore; title: Religious awakenings in Baltimore; title: From the valley of shadows to freedom; title: The zealous orator, 1839-1852; title: The young abolitionist orator; title: Bearing witness in Great Britain; title: An antislavery constitution and a righteous violence; title: The hopeful prophet, 1853-1895; title: The crisis of the union; title: Reconstruction battles over racial and gender equality; title: At the dark dawn of Jim Crow; title: Unraveling the mysteries of God's providence and progress; title: Frederick Douglass is not dead!