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Young Frederick Douglass

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Drawing on previously untapped sources, Young Frederick Douglass recreates with fidelity and in convincing detail the background and early life of the man who was to become ""the gadfly of America's conscience"" and the undisputed spokesman for nineteenth-century black Americans.

With a new foreword by renowned Douglass scholar David W. Blight, Dickson J. Preston's highly regarded biography traces the life and times of Frederick Douglass from his birth on Maryland's Eastern Shore in 1818 until 1838, when he escaped from slavery to emerge upon the national scene. Astounding his white contemporaries with his oratorical brilliance and intellectual capabilities, Douglass dared to challenge the doctrine of white supremacy on its own grounds. At the time of Douglass's death in 1895, one eulogist wrote that he was probably the best-known American throughout the world since Abraham Lincoln.

Foreword by, David W. Blight
Foreword by, James Michener
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I. A Boy Named Frederick
1. The Bailey Heritage
2. Father Image: Aaron Anthony
3. Frederick's Birth
4. The Colonel and the Slave Boy
5. Rule by Terror
6. Fells Point
7. Teen-Age Rebel
8. Rebirth
9. Preparation for Freedom
Part II. The Exile's Return
10. Postwar Reunions
11. Homecoming to Talbot
Appendix A. A Douglass Chronology
Appendix B. Genealogy of Frederick Douglass
A Note on Sources
Notes
Index

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