Frederick Douglass: Speeches & Writings (Loa #358) Av Frederick Douglass

<b>Library of America presents the biggest, most comprehensive trade edition of Frederick Douglass''s writings ever published</b><br><br>Edited by Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer David W. Blight, this Library of America edition is the largest single-volume selection of Frederick Douglass’s writings ever published, presenting the full texts of thirty-four speeches and sixty-seven pieces of journalism. (A companion Library of America volume, <i>Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies</i>, gathers his three memoirs.) With startling immediacy, these writings chart the evolution of Douglass’s thinking about slavery and the U.S. Constitution; his eventual break with William Lloyd Garrison and many other abolitionists on the crucial issue of disunion; the course of his complicated relationship with Abraham Lincoln; and his deep engagement with the cause of women’s suffrage.<br> <br>Here are such powerful works as “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?,&rdqu