Frederick Douglass
By: by Booker T. Washington
Contributors: 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: 2000
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans; Biography; African American abolitionists; African American orators; Abolitionists; Slaves; Fugitive slaves; Free African Americans; Social conditions; Antislavery movements; Slavery; History
Other titles: North American slave narratives.
Description: This biography of Douglass also includes some detailed background on contemporary issues and events and how they influenced Douglass' rise to prominence: the roots of antislavery agitation, the Fugitive Slave Law, the Underground Railroad, the American Colonisation Society, the conflict in Kansas for free soil, the John Brown raid, the Civil War, the enlistment of Colored Troops, and Reconstruction.
Notes: Title from electronic title page (viewed August 18, 2003)

Tuskegee University Libraries provided the text for the electronic publication of this title.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection North American slave narratives.

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Includes bibliography (p. 353) and index.

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Transcribed from: Frederick Douglass / by Booker T. Washington. London : Hodder and Stoughton, Publishers, c1906. 365 p.

Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation supported the electronic publication of this title.

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