Frederick Douglass
Subtitle: selected speeches and writings
By: edited by Philip S. Foner ; abridged and adapted by Yuval Taylor.
Contributors: Foner, Philip Sheldon, 1910-; Taylor, Yuval.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The library of Black America
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 789
Subjects: Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 19th century; Speeches, addresses, etc., American
Description: "One of the greatest African American leaders and one of the most brilliant minds of his time, Frederick Douglass spoke and wrote with unsurpassed eloquence on almost all the major issues confronting the American people during his life - from the abolition of slavery to women's rights, from the Civil War to lynching, from American patriotism to black nationalism."--BOOK JACKET.

"Between 1950 and 1975, Philip S. Foner collected the most important of Douglass's hundreds of speeches, letters, articles, and editorials into an impressive five-volume set, now long out of print. Abridged, adapted, and supplemented with several important texts that Foner did not include, Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings presents the most significant, insightful, and elegant short works of Douglass's massive oeuvre."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.