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A glorious liberty : Frederick Douglass and the fight for an antislavery constitution / Damon Root.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Root, Damon, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
- Douglass, Frederick.
- United States. Constitution--13th Amendment.
- United States.
- United States. Constitution--14th Amendment.
- United States. Constitution--15th Amendment.
- Constitution (United States).
- Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.
- Antislavery movements.
- History.
- African American abolitionists.
- Abolitionists--United States.
- Abolitionists.
- Constitutional history--United States.
- Constitutional history.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 186 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Lincoln, Nebraska] : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press [2020]
- Summary:
- "A review of Douglass's ideas about free labor and constitutional liberty in order to understand the origins and meanings of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, each of which grew out of the anti-slavery movement that Douglass did so much to shape"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. "A Faithful Disciple of William Lloyd Garrison"
- 2. "An Anti-slavery Instrument"
- 3. "This Hell-Black Judgment of the Supreme Court".
- 4. "Men of Color, to Arms!"
- 5. "One Nation, One Country, One Citizenship".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781640122352
- 1640122354
- OCLC:
- 1145101450
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