"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).