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Frederick Douglass - A Biography - cover

Frederick Douglass - A Biography

Charles W. Chesnutt

Maison d'édition: e-artnow

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The following book is a biography of Frederick Douglass, an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counterexample to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens.
Disponible depuis: 26/11/2023.
Longueur d'impression: 143 pages.

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