The portable Frederick Douglass /
A new collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator and civil rights leader This compact volume offers a full course on the remarkable, diverse career of Frederick Douglass, letting us hear once more a necessary historical figure whose guiding voice is needed now as u...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Penguin Classics,
[2016]
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| Summary: | A new collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator and civil rights leader This compact volume offers a full course on the remarkable, diverse career of Frederick Douglass, letting us hear once more a necessary historical figure whose guiding voice is needed now as urgently as ever. Edited by renowned scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Pulitzer Prize-nominated historian John Stauffer, The Portable Frederick Douglass includes the full range of Douglass's works, the complete Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, as well as extracts from My Bondage and My Freedom and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave, one of the first works of African American fiction, the brilliant speeches that launched his political career and that constitute the greatest oratory of the Civil War era and his journalism, which ranges from cultural and political critique (including his early support for women's equality) to law, history, philosophy, literature, art and international affairs, including a never-before-published essay on Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L'Ouverture. The Portable Frederick Douglass is the latest addition in a series of African American classics curated by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. First published in 2008, the series reflects a selection of great works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry by African and African American authors introduced and annotated by leading scholars and acclaimed writers in new or updated editions for Penguin Classics. In his series essay, "What Is an African American Classic?" Gates provides a broader view of the canon of classics of African American literature available from Penguin Classics and beyond. |
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| Physical Description: | 579 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780143106814 (paperback) 0143106813 (paperback) |