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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself, Critical Edition
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself, Critical Edition Yale University Press 2016-10-25 264 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 7 b/w illustrations Paperback ISBN: 9780300204711 Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) Edited by: John R. McKivigan, Mary O’Brien Gibson Professor of History Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis Peter P. Hinks Heather L. Kaufman,…
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Tackling fraught but fascinating issues of cultural borrowing and appropriation, this groundbreaking book reveals that Victorian literature was put to use in African American literature and print culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in much more intricate, sustained, and imaginative ways than previously suspected. From reprinting and reframing “The Charge of the Light…
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Who’s the most photographed American man of the 19th Century? HINT: It’s not Lincoln… The Washington Post 2016-03-15 Jennifer Beeson Gregory Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass would become one of the most well-known abolitionists, orators, and writers of his time. He understood and heralded not only the power of the written or spoken…
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WELL! WELL! Goldsboro Weekly Argus Goldsboro, North Carolina Thursday, 1895-02-28 (Volume XVI, Number 67) page 1, column 3 Source: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. United States Library of Congress. Well, well, well! “Where are we at?” The sudden death of Frederick Douglas, the foremost negro in America, not by deserts but by the combination of…
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The many faces of Frederick Douglass Democrat and Chronicle Rochester, New York 2015-12-25 Jim Memmott, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English University of Rochester, Rochester, New York Portrait of Frederick Douglass taken November 3, 1882 by John Howe Kent, 24 State Street, Rochester, New York (Photo: Courtesy of the Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and…
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Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century’s Most Photographed American Liveright (an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company) November 2015 320 pages 9.4 × 12.4 in Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-87140-468-8 John Stauffer, Professor of English, American studies, and African American Studies Harvard University Zoe Trodd, Professor of American Literature Department of American…
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The Lives of Frederick Douglass Harvard University Press February 2016 350 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches 9 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780674055810 Robert S. Levine, Professor of English and a Distinguished University Professor University of Maryland Frederick Douglass’s fluid, changeable sense of his own life story is reflected in the many conflicting accounts he gave of…
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Deconstructing Pseudo-Scientific Anthropology: Anténor Firmin and the Reconceptualization of African Humanity The Journal of Pan African Studies Volume 7, Number 2, August 2014 pages 9-33 Gershom Williams, Adjunct Professor of African-American History and African-American Studies Mesa Community College, Mesa, Arizona “The science of inequality is emphatically a science of White people. It is they who…