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Author Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.

Title In the words of Frederick Douglass : quotations from liberty's champion / edited by John R. McKivigan and Heather L. Kaufman ; foreword by John Stauffer.

Publication Info. Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 256 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-247) and index.
Contents A life of reform -- Frederick Douglass chronology -- The words of Frederick Douglass -- Abolition -- African American character -- Alcohol -- Animals -- Aristocracy -- Art -- Assimilation -- Autobiography -- Boasting -- Capital punishment -- Children -- Christmas -- Cities -- Civil rights -- Civil war -- Class -- Colonization -- Conscience -- Constitution -- Crime -- Death -- Declaration of Independence -- Disagreement -- Diversity -- Education -- Emancipation -- Emigration -- Employment -- Evolution -- Family -- Fathers -- Firsts -- Fourth of July -- France -- Free Blacks -- Free speech -- Freedom -- Freedman's Savings and Trust Bank -- Friendship -- Fugitive slaves -- Government -- Great Britain -- Haiti -- Harpers Ferry -- History -- Home -- Humanity -- Human rights -- Humor -- Immigration -- Individuality -- Inertia -- Innocence -- Ireland -- Justice -- Labor -- Law -- Liberty -- Lies -- Life -- Luck -- Lynching -- Morality -- Mothers -- Murder -- Native Americans -- Nature -- Necessity -- Nostalgia -- Oppression -- Optimism -- Oratory -- Parenting -- Patriotism -- Peace -- People -- Photography -- Politics -- Poverty -- The press -- Principles -- Progress -- Property -- Prosperity -- Public opinion -- Racism -- Realism -- Reconstruction -- Reform -- Religion -- Resignation -- Respect -- Revolution -- Sectional reconciliation -- Self-awareness -- Self-defense -- Slaveholders -- Slavery -- Slaves -- Sleep -- Success -- Suffrage -- Tariffs -- Time -- Travel -- Trust -- Truth -- Underground Railroad -- Usefulness -- Vices -- Virtues -- War -- Women.
Summary Frederick Douglass, a runaway Maryland slave, was witness to and participant in some of the most important events in the history of the American Republic between the years of 1818 and 1895. Beginning his long public career in 1841 as an agent of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, Douglass subsequently edited four newspapers and championed many reform movements. An advocate of morality, economic accumulation, self-help, and equality, Douglass supported racial pride, constant agitation against racial discrimination, vocational education for Blacks, and nonviolent passive resistance. He was the only man who played a prominent role at the 1848 meeting in Seneca Falls that formally launched the women's rights movement. He was a temperance advocate and opposed capital punishment, lynching, debt peonage, and the convict lease system. A staunch defender of the Liberty and Republican parties, Douglass held several political appointments, frequently corresponded with leading politicians, and advised Presidents Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, and Harrison. He met with John Brown before his abortive raid on Harpers Ferry, helped to recruit African American troops during the Civil War, attended most national Black conventions held between 1840 and 1895, and served as U.S. ambassador to Haiti.
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Subject Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Quotations.
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
Genre/Form Quotations.
Subject Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Political and social views.
Political and social views.
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 19th century -- Quotations, maxims, etc.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Quotations.
Added Author McKivigan, John R., 1949-
Kaufman, Heather L., 1969-
Other Form: Print version: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895. In the words of Frederick Douglass 9780801447907 (DLC) 2011027254 (OCoLC)734002452
ISBN 9780801463709 (electronic book)
080146370X (electronic book)
9780801447907
0801447909