{"product_id":"frederick-douglass-speeches-writings-loa-358-9781598537222","title":"Frederick Douglass: Speeches \u0026 Writings (Loa #358)","description":"\u003cb\u003eLibrary of America presents the biggest, most comprehensive trade edition of Frederick Douglass's writings ever published\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEdited 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, \u003ci\u003eFrederick Douglass: Autobiographies\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere are such powerful works as \"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?,\" Douglass's incandescent jeremiad skewering the hypocrisy of the slaveholding republic; \"The Claims of the Negro Ethnologically Considered,\" a full-throated refutation of nineteenthcentury racial pseudoscience; \"Is it Right and Wise to Kill a Kidnapper?,\" an urgent call for forceful opposition to the Fugitive Slave Act; \"How to End the War,\" in which Douglass advocates, just days after the fall of Fort Sumter, for the raising of Black troops and the military destruction of slavery; \"There Was a Right Side in the Late War,\" Douglass's no-holds-barred attack on the \"Lost Cause\" mythology of the Confederacy; and \"Lessons of the Hour,\" an impassioned denunciation of lynching and disenfranchisement in the emerging Jim Crow South. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a special feature the volume also presents Douglass's only foray into fiction, the 1853 novella \"The Heroic Slave,\" about Madison Washington, leader of the real-life insurrection on board the domestic slave-trading ship \u003ci\u003eCreole\u003c\/i\u003e in 1841 that resulted in the liberation of more than a hundred enslaved people. Editorial features include detailed notes identifying Douglass's many scriptural and cultural references, a newly revised chronology of his life and career, and an index.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Library of America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/27\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781598537222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 969\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs","brand":"Frederick Douglass","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42314703601845,"sku":"9781598537222","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_d6cbc9e6-6fb2-43d4-9089-4ff419d43ad4.jpg?v=1659412480","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/frederick-douglass-speeches-writings-loa-358-9781598537222","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}