9780486498829-0486498824-Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass (Dover Thrift Editions: Black History)

Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass (Dover Thrift Editions: Black History)

ISBN-13: 9780486498829
ISBN-10: 0486498824
Author: Frederick Douglass, James Daley
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Dover Publications
Format: Paperback 160 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780486498829
ISBN-10: 0486498824
Author: Frederick Douglass, James Daley
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Dover Publications
Format: Paperback 160 pages

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Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass (Dover Thrift Editions: Black History) (ISBN-13: 9780486498829 and ISBN-10: 0486498824), written by authors Frederick Douglass, James Daley, was published by Dover Publications in 2013. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Black & African Americans (United States History, Americas History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass (Dover Thrift Editions: Black History) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Black & African Americans books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.11.

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Author, abolitionist, political activist, and philosopher, Frederick Douglass was a pivotal figure in the decades of struggle leading up to the Civil War and the Reconstruction era. This inexpensive compilation of his speeches adds vital detail to the portrait of a great historical figure.
Featured addresses include "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" which was delivered on July 5, 1852, more than ten years before the Emancipation Proclamation. "Had I the ability, and could reach the nation's ear, I would, today, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke," Douglass assured his listeners, "For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake." Other eloquent and dramatic orations include "Self-Made Men," first delivered in 1859, which defines the principles behind individual success, and "The Church and Prejudice," delivered at the Plymouth County Anti-Slavery Society in 1841.

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