Life and Times of Frederick Douglass : Written by Himself / Frederick Douglass ; edited by Celeste-Marie Bernier, and Andrew Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895, author.

Contributor:

Bernier, Celeste-Marie, editor.

Taylor, Andrew, 1968- editor.

Series:

Oxford world's classics.

Oxford World's Classics Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American abolitionists--Biography.

African American abolitionists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (748 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

In his final autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass Written By Himself, Frederick Douglass shares the stories of his 'several lives in one.' He does powerful justice to his lives lived in U.S. slavery, in the fight for abolition, and in the 'conflict and battle' of the Civil War.

Contents:

Cover

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

Copyright

Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction

Frederick Douglass' Fight against the 'Spirit of Slavery'

Frederick Douglass as Author, Historian, and Educator

The Civil War and Black Combat Heroism

The Publishing History of Life and Times

Frederick Douglass as Witness, Memorialist, and Advocate

Note on the Text

Select Bibliography

Selected Writings by Frederick Douglass

Biography

Critical Studies, Essays and Art Installations

A Chronology of Frederick Douglass

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass Written by Himself

Life as a Slave

Chapter I: Author's Birth

Chapter II: Removal from Grandmother's

Chapter III: Troubles of Childhood

Chater IV: Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

Chapter V: A Slaveholder's Character

Chapter VI: A Child's Reasoning

Chapter VII: Luxuries at the Great House

Chapter VIII: Characteristics of Overseers

Chapter IX: Change of Location

Chapter X: Learning to Read

Chapter XI: Growing in Knowledge

Chater XII: Religious Nature Awakened

Chapter XIII: The Vicissitudes of Slave Life

Chapter XIV: Experience in St. Michaels

Chapter XV: Covey, The Negro Breaker

Chater XVI: Another Pressure of the Tyrant's Vise

Chapter XVII: The Last Flogging

Chapter XVIII: New Relations and Duties

Chater XIX: The Runaway Plot

Chapter XX: Apprenticeship Life

Chapter XXI: Escape from Slavery

Second Part

Chapter I: Escape from Slavery

Chapter II: Life as a Freeman

Chapter III: Introduced to the Abolitionists

Chaprter IV: Recollections of Old Friends

Chapter V: One Hundred Conventions

Chapter VI: Impressions Abroad

Chapter VII: Triumphs and Trials

Chapter VIII: John Brown and Mrs. Stowe

Chapter IX: Increasing Demands of the Slave Power.

Chapter X: The Beginning of the End

Chapter XI: Secession and War

Chapter XII: Hope for the Nation

Chapter XIII: Vast Changes

Chapter XIV: Living and Learning

Chapter XV:Weighed in the Balance

Chapter XVI: 'Time Makes all Things Even'

Chapter XVII: Incidents and Events

Chapter XVIII: 'Honor to Whom Honor'

Chapter XIX: Retrospection

Conclusion

Appendix

Third Part

Chapter I: Later life

Chapter II: A grand occasion

Chapter III: Doubts as to garfield 's course

Chapter IV: Recorder of deeds

Chapter V: President cleveland 's administration

Chapter VI: The supreme court decision

Chapter VII: Defeat of James G. Blaine

Chapter VIII: European tour

Chapter IX: Continuation of European tour

Chapter X: The campaign of 1888

Chapter XI: Administration of President Harrison

Chapter XII: Minister to Haïti

Chapter XIII: Continued negotiations for the Môle St . Nicolas

Appendix: Frederick Douglass, Lessons of the Hour

Explanatory notes

End add.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Douglass, Frederick Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

ISBN:

9780192572202