Frederick Douglass (Magill’s Literary Annual 1992)
At a glance:
- Author: William S. McFeely
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Historical biography
- Time of Work: 1818-1895
- Setting: The United States and Europe
- Principal Characters: Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Abraham Lincoln, Otilla Assing, Julia Griffiths, John Brown, Thomas Auld
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Biography
- Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights, Freedom, United States or Americans, Politics, Revolutionaries, Abolitionists, Nineteenth century, Slavery or slaves, Europe or Europeans
- Locales: Europe, United States
Frederick Douglass was the most eminent African American of the nineteenth century. Born in Talbot County, Eastern shore, Maryland, in the year 1818 to a slave mother for whom he felt little attachment and a white father whom he never knew, young Frederick Bailey (his given name), after twenty years of slavery, fled to the North, where he became a leading orator and editor in the struggle for African-American freedom and civil rights. Biographers and historians have made him the subject of many articles and books that have attempted to understand the source of his genius and the meaning...
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