In this remarkable new biography of great American orator and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, historian David W. Blight has drawn on new information from both a private collection and recently discovered issues of Douglass’s newspapers. The first major biography of Douglass in a quarter century tells the fascinating story of Douglass’s two marriages, his complex extended […]
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