Frederick Douglass
Charles W. Chesnutt · English
Frederick Douglass is a short biography by the novelist Charles W.
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Frederick Douglass is a short biography by the novelist Charles W. Chesnutt, published in 1899 in the series Beacon Biographies of Eminent Americans. Chesnutt traces Douglass's life from his birth into slavery in Maryland and his escape to the North in 1838 to his career as an abolitionist orator, author and newspaper editor, his part in the Civil War and Reconstruction years, and his later public offices. Within a small compass the book aims to sum up, for a new generation of readers, how Douglass's contemporaries judged his genius and his character.
Frederick Douglass
Charles W. Chesnutt · English
Frederick Douglass is a short biography by the novelist Charles W.
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Charles Chesnutt The Beacon biographies of eminent Americans. Includes bibliographical references (p.). Preface Frederick Douglass lived so long, and played so conspicuous a part on the world's stage, that it would be impossible, in a work of the size of this, to do more than touch upon the salient features of his career, to suggest the respects in which he influenced the course of events in his lifetime, and to epitomize for the readers of another generation the judgment of his contemporaries as to his genius and his character.
Pagera Editor's Note
Frederick Douglass is a short biography by the novelist Charles W. Chesnutt, published in 1899 in the series Beacon Biographies of Eminent Americans. Chesnutt traces Douglass's life from his birth into slavery in Maryland and his escape to the North in 1838 to his career as an abolitionist orator, author and newspaper editor, his part in the Civil War and Reconstruction years, and his later public offices. Within a small compass the book aims to sum up, for a new generation of readers, how Douglass's contemporaries judged his genius and his character.
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