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ISBN

9781416590316

Price

$37.50

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Abstract

David W. Blight’s impressive tome, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, is the first biography of the abolitionist, writer, editor, orator, and statesman in twenty-five years. Rather than reworking former research on the great social reformer, Blight has drawn on new information held in a private collection few other historians have consulted, as well as recently unearthed issues of Douglass’s newspapers. The result is a distinguished and complete portrait of Douglass, which reveals his complexity and evolving commitment to social transformation, as well as a newly rendered representation of Douglass’s relationship with Abraham Lincoln.

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.20.4.02

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