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Excerpt from Why Is the Negro Lynched? North and South, 1 shall submit the same to the candid judgment of all who hear me in full confidence that it will be received as true, by honest men and women of both sections of this Republic. There is one thing, however, in which I think we must all agree at the start. It is that this so - called but mis called Negro problem is one of the most important and urgent subjects that can now engage public ...

A new collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leader This compact volume offers a full course on the remarkable, diverse career of Frederick Douglass, letting us hear once more a necessary historical figure whose guiding voice is needed now as urgently as ever. Edited by renowned scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Pulitzer Prize-nominated historian John Stauffer, The Portable Frederick D...

Excerpt from Oration by Frederick Douglass: Delivered on the Occasion of the Unveiling of the Freedmen's Monument in Memory of Abraham Lincoln, in Lincoln Park, Washington, D. C., April 14th, 1876, With an Appendix This speech is of unique worth as the measured judgment of the greatest leader of the Negro people in our country - oi one who stands beside Lincoln as an Emancipator. The teachings of this great Negro Abolitionist, Liberator, and ...

Excerpt from Three Addresses on the Relations Subsisting Between the White and Colored People of the United States The following was delivered by Frederick Douglass as an address to the people of the United States at a Convention of Colored Men held in Louisville, Ky., September 24, 1883: Fellow-Citizens: Charged with the responsibility and duty of doing what we may to advance the interest and promote the general welfare of a people lately e...

¿Frederick Bailey was born in circumstances that could scarcely have been more humble. A slave in Maryland in 1818, he was born amongst whispers that he could be the Master's son. He was, because of the gruelling work schedule of the farm, growing up without a clear memory of even his mother's face in the daylight. He was passed around from family to family and Master to Mistress. A bewildering and no doubt distressing roller coaster of face...

Excerpt from Southern QuestionsThis. Then, is the high vantage ground of the negro, he has labor, the South wants it, and must have it or perish. Since he is free he can now give it, or withhold it, use it where he is. Or take it elsewhere, as he pleases. His labor made him a slave. And his labor can, if he will, make him free, comfortable and independent. It is more to him than either fire, sword, ballot-boxes, or bayo nets. It touches the he...

Excerpt from The Anti-Slavery Movement Notwithstanding such discouraging considerations, I presume to speak to you, tonight, on the subject selected. In doing so, I have one consolation, and that is, as I apprehend it, the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-...

Excerpt from John Brown: An Address at the Fourteenth Anniversary of Storer College, Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, May 30, 1881Not to fan the ¿ame of sectional animosity now happily in the process of rapid and I hope permanent extinction 5 not to revive and keep alive a sense of shame and remorse for a great national crime, which has brought its own punishment, in loss of treasure, tears and blood 3 not 'to recount the long list of wrongs, in...

Written more than a century ago by Frederick Douglass, a former slave who went on to become a famous orator, U.S. minister, and a leader of his people, this masterpiece is one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. Douglass's shocking narrative takes the reader into the world of the South's antebellum plantations and reveals the daily terrors he suffered as a slave, shedding invaluable light on one of the most unjust period...

Large Format for easy reading. Douglass was among the most prominent African-Americans of his time, and one of the most influential lecturers and authors in American history. His most well-known work is his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Critics frequently attacked the book as inauthentic, not believing that a black man could have produced so eloquent a piece of literature. It was an immedi...

In the most seminal slave narrative ever written, Frederick Douglass writes, "From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me within its foul embrace, and in the darkest hours of my career in slavery, this living word of faith and spirit of hope departed not from me, but remained like ministering angels to cheer me through the gloom." Reading this narrative is to wit...

This inexpensive compilation of the great abolitionist's speeches includes "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" (1852), "The Church and Prejudice" (1841), and "Self-Made Men" (1859).

William L. Andrews, professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the author of To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865. ¿

First published in 1845, the "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" is the memoir of former slave turned abolitionist, Frederick Douglass. Considered as one of the most famous of all the slave narratives ever written, the story recounts Douglass's life from early childhood growing up in Maryland as a slave to his eventual escape to the North. Douglass tells of his life with various owners depicting the cruelty that he himself endured an...

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A fascinating collection of Frederick Douglass's always-controversial speeches in Brooklyn, New York.

In reprinting these orations the editor has endeavored to present them here as nearly as possible in their original form. No effort has been made to improve the English. Published in this form, then, these orations will be of value not only to persons studying the development of the Negro in his use of a modern idiom but also in the study of the history of the race. It is in this spirit that these messages are again given to the public.

A new edition of one of the most influential literary documents in American and African American history

Frederick Douglass' 1845 Narrative is accompanied by a preface and explanatory footnotes. Included are contemporary perspectives, along with essays, a chronology and bibliography.

Raised as a plantation slave, Douglass went on to become a writer, orator, and major participant in the struggle for African-American freedom and equality. In this engrossing narrative he recounts early years of abuse, his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom, abolitionist campaigns, and his crusade for full civil rights for former slaves.