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1 online resource (134 pages) : illustrations. |
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Social issues in literature |
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Gale eBooks
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Social issues in literature.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
CHAPTER I. BACKGROUND ON FREDERICK DOUGLASS. From slavery to national prominence / Russell K. Hively -- Douglass on the abuse of slave women for pleasure and profit / Frederick Douglass -- CHAPTER II. SLAVERY IN NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Preaching the evils of slavery / Robert G. O'Meally -- Countering the slaveholders' argument / Peter C. Meyers -- Slavery's assault on women and the family / Wu Jin-Ping -- Slavery denies Douglass a father / Peter F. Walker -- Slavery robs its victims of identity / Henry Louis Gates Jr. -- Douglass battles oppression to gain literacy and power / Philip S. Foner -- Religious belief and slavery / Scott C. Williamson -- Slaveholders and their religion / Donald B. Gibson -- Douglass's Narrative as a work for abolition / Houston A. Baker Jr. -- CHAPTER III. CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES ON SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES. Agricultural slaves / Erin C. Heil -- Labor exploitation and human trafficking of Mexican nationals to the Gulf Coast / Stephanie Hepburn -- New US immigrants at risk of becoming forced labor victims / Kira Zalan -- Child sex slaves in America / Malika Saada Saar -- Research can aid in understanding and preventing modern-day slavery in the United States / Maureen Q. McGough. |
| Summary |
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of African-American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman, Frederick Douglass. |
| Subject |
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
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Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895. Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave.
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African American abolitionists -- Biography.
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Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography.
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Slaves -- United States -- Biography.
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Slavery -- United States -- History.
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Slavery in literature.
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Social ethics in literature.
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| Added Author |
Johnson, Claudia Durst, 1938- editor.
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Gale (Firm)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Slavery in Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2014 9780737769869 (DLC) 2013047318 |
| ISBN |
9780737770667 (electronic book) |
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9780737769869 (hardback) |
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9780737769876 (paperback) |
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0737769866 |
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