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Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created collection of autobiographies and memoirs by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass. This amazing collection is consisted of masterpieces such as "My Bondage and My Freedom" or "Life and Times of Frederick Douglass" which are often considered required classroom reading.
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is one of the most influential autobiographies ever written. This classic did as much as or more than any other book to motivate the abolitionist to continue to fight for freedom in American. Frederick Douglass was born a slave, he escaped a brutal system and through sheer force of will educated himself and became an abolitionist, editor, orator, author, statesman, and reformer. This is one of the most unlikely...
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This edition includes: “Memoirs: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave”, “My Bondage and My Freedom”, “Life and Times of Frederick Douglass”. Writings & Speeches: “The Heroic Slave”, “My Escape from Slavery” “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” “Self-Made Men” “The Church” and many more.
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In 1852, Frederick Douglass, former slave and, by then, a leading figure in the abolitionist movement was, asked by the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Association to address the group for their July 4th celebration at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York.
Delivered, in fact, on the 5th of July, the speech caused an immediate sensation and swiftly became a seminal rallying cry of the abolitionist movement in America. The audience in Rochester included...
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The story of Frederick Douglass is passionate, harrowing, and inspiring. As a former slave, impassioned abolitionist, gifted writer, newspaper editor, and powerful orator, Douglass was an immense, motivational figure. His early life, filled with physical abuse, deprivation, and tragedy, adds up to a heart-wrenching history. However, he was able to overcome everything that bound a slave to his life and become a leading spokesman for his people.
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“My Bondage and My Freedom”, by Frederick Douglass. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from today’s top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events
• Footnotes and endnotes
• Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired...
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"A Runaway Slave from Baltimore" contains a collection of speeches and letters by Frederick Douglass (1818—1895), an American escaped slave who became a prominent activist, author, and public speaker who garnered significant acclaim for his 1845 autobiography. A leading figure in the abolitionist movement, he fought for the end of slavery until the 1862 Emancipation Proclamation and continued to vehemently fight for human rights until his death....
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The Frederick Douglass Megapack provides a selection of the works of Frederick Douglas, including 2 autobiographies as well as essays, speeches, and slave narratives. Included are:
NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE
MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM
RECEPTION SPEECH
THE NATURE OF SLAVERY
INHUMANITY OF SLAVERY
WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE FOURTH OF JULY?
THE INTERNAL SLAVE TRADE
THE SLAVERY PARTY
THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT
MY...
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Frederick Douglass was born in slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland. He was not sure of the exact year of his birth, but he knew that it was 1817 or 1818. As a young boy he was sent to Baltimore, to be a house servant, where he learned to read and write, with the assistance of his master's wife. In 1838 he escaped from slavery and went to New York City, where he married Anna Murray, a free colored...
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