Title Frederick Douglass : speeches & writings / David W. Blight, editor.

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New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2022]

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Description	xvi, 955 pages ; 21 cm.
Series	Library of America ; 358.
Note	"Including the novella 'The heroic slave'"--Jacket.
Summary	"Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David W. Blight, this Library of America edition is the largest single-volume selection of Frederick Douglass's writings ever published, presenting the full texts of thirty-four speeches and sixty-seven pieces of journalismi. As a special feature the volume also presents Douglas's only foray into fiction, the 1853 novella “The Heroic Slave,” about Madison Washington, leader of the real-life insurrection on board the domestic slave-trading ship Creole in 1841 that resulted in the liberation of more than a hundred enslaved people"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 831-838).
Subject	African Americans -- History -- Sources.
	African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources.
	Slavery -- United States -- History -- Sources.
	Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- Sources.
	Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources.
	African American orators.
	Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- African American authors.
	American essays -- African American authors.
Genre	Speeches.
	Essays.
Added Author	Blight, David W., editor.
	Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895. Heroic slave.
Added Title	Speeches & writings
	Speeches and writings
ISBN	9781598537222 hc.

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