If I survive : Frederick Douglass and family in the Walter O. Evans collection : a 200 year anniversary / Celeste-Marie Bernier and Andrew Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bernier, Celeste-Marie, author.

Taylor, Andrew, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895--Family.

Douglass, Frederick.

Evans, Walter O--Art collections.

Evans, Walter O.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xcvi, 777 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]

Summary:

Previously unseen speeches, letters, autobiographies, and photographs of Frederick Douglass and his sons, Lewis Henry, Frederick Jr. and Charles Remond Douglass, from the Walter O. Evans collectionWhile the many public lives of Frederick Douglass – as the representative ‘fugitive slave’, autobiographer, orator, abolitionist, reformer, philosopher and statesman – are lionised worldwide, If I Survive sheds light on the private life of Douglass the family man. For the first time, this book provides readers with a collective biography mapping the activism, authorship and artistry of Douglass and his sons, Lewis Henry, Frederick Jr. and Charles Remond Douglass. In one volume, the history of the Douglass family appears alongside full colour facsimile reproductions of their over 80 previously unpublished speeches, letters, autobiographies and photographs held in the Walter O. Evans Collection. All of life can be found within these pages: romance, hope, despair, love, life, death, war, protest, politics, art, and friendship. Working together and against a changing backdrop of US slavery, Civil War and Reconstruction, the Douglass family fought for a new ‘dawn of freedom’.Marking the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass’ birth, this first collective history and comprehensive collection of the Douglass family writings and portraits sheds new light not only on Douglass as a freedom-fighter and family man but on the lives and works of Lewis Henry, Frederick Jr., and Charles Remond. As civil rights protesters, essayists, autobiographers, and orators in their own right, they each played a vital role in the ‘struggles for the cause of liberty’ of their father. As published here, each of their original writings and portraits is accompanied by an explanatory essay and in-depth scholarly annotatations as well as a detailed bibliography.Recognising that the Frederick Douglass that is needed in a twenty-first century Black Lives Matter era is no infallible icon but a mortal individual, If I Survive situates the lives and works of Douglass and his family within the social, political, historical and cultural contexts in which they lived and worked. Each unafraid to die for the cause, they dedicated their lives to the “emancipation of the slave” and to social justice by every means necessary.The Foreword is written by Robert S. Levine and the Afterword is authored by Kim F. Hall.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Preface: “My Only Way of Fighting”—Walter O. Evans and Collecting “400 years of Black History”

Frederick Douglass Family Tree

Acknowledgments

A Note on Texts and Editorial Practice

Introduction: “We Labored with Our Father”—The Told Story of Frederick Douglass is the Untold Story of His Family

Part I: Our Bondage and Our Freedom

Part II: An “Undying” Love Story

Part III: “Men of Color, To Arms!”

Part IV: The “Incontestable Voice of History” in Frederick Douglass’s Manuscripts

Part V: “I Glory in Your Spirit”

Part VI: “I Was Born”

Part VII: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave and Free Man, as told by Charles Remond Douglass

Part VIII: Frederick Douglass and Family in Photographs and Prints

Part IX: Frederick Douglass and Family Resources

Part X: Helen Amelia Loguen Correspondence

Afterword

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-3973-X

1-4744-3974-8

OCLC:

1312726761