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Life and times of Frederick Douglass his early life as a slave, his escape from bondage, and his complete history to the present time, including his connection with the anti-slavery movement written by himself ; with an introduction by George L. Ruffin

Catalog Data

Author:
Douglass, Frederick 1818-1895  Search this
Author:
Ruffin, George L (George Lewis),) 1834-1886  Search this
Physical description:
618 pages illustrations 20 cm
Type:
Biography
Biographies
History
Place:
United States
Maryland
Date:
1882
19th century
Notes:
The Life and times is the final form of an autobiography originally published as a small Narrative in 1845, expanded in My bondage and my freedom in 1855, further extended in the first edition under the same title in 1881, and completed and revised in 1893. cf. Editor's note in edition published by Pathway Press, 1941
NMAFRU copy 39088018907014 gift of Charles A. Beyah.
Topic:
Abolitionists  Search this
African Americans  Search this
Antislavery movements  Search this
Fugitive slaves  Search this
Plantation life--History  Search this
Slaves--Social conditions  Search this
Plantation life  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
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