Title: Douglass and Melville
Description: " ... Two great American writers who came from worlds apart but who found common ground in their thoughts on the human condition and the turbulent political arena of their time. Their writings-dealing with issues such as slavery, abolition, equality, and freedom-have been scrutinized by students and academics for 150 years. Now author Robert K. Wallace provides a fresh approach to understanding and appreciating the lives, writings, and legacies of these two contemporary American thinkers by following their parallel footsteps through New Bedford, Albany, and New York. Book jacket."--Jacket.
Subjects: Abolitionists, African American abolitionists, Biography, Contemporaries, History, Influence, Literature and society, Political and social views, Race in literature, Race relations in literature
Places: United States
People: Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Time periods: 19th century