Authors:Frederick Douglass, Henry Louis Gates,
Publisher: Library of America
Keywords: frederick, douglass, life, times, library, america, freedom, american, autobiographies, narrative, slave, bondage
Number of Pages: 1100
Published: 1994-02-01
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0940450798
ISBN-13: 9780940450790
Frederick Douglass, born a slave, educated himself, escaped, and made himself one of the greatest leaders in American history. His brilliant anti-slavery speeches were so fiercely intelligent, and so startlingly eloquent, that many people didn’t believe he had been a slave. To prove them wrong, Douglass decided to write his own story. His autobiographical narratives stunned the world, and have shocked, moved, and inspired readers ever since. Here, complete for the first time in one authoritative volume, are the three powerful and gripping stories, now recognized as classics of American w
Authors:Merrill E. Douglass, Donna N. Douglass,
Publisher: AMACOM
Keywords: yourself, work, time, manage
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1993-04-02
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0814478255
ISBN-13: 9780814478257
Working faster waif t save more time. Neither will working longer hours. But changing time-wasting behaviour can lead to less stress, more balanced lives and greater accomplishments. Completely revised, this popular ’guide outlines seven steps that will transform time wasters into time masters. Covering every aspect of tune management, it explains how to: set priorities, distinguish short from long-term goals, schedule activities, analyze time, streamline paperwork, minimize interruptions, manage travel time, and conquer procrastination. A mini-quiz at the beginning of each chapter pin-p
Authors:Jackie Leatherbury Douglass, John Douglass, Roger To
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Keywords: color, books, guides, field, peterson, shells
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2006-03-29
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 061854223X
ISBN-13: 9780618542239
Color your own field guide and make nature come alive.Coloring your own field guide, from the peachy white of a Knobbed Whelk to the pinkish purple of a Tulip Mussel, is the most enjoyable way to learn about shells. Each drawing is accompanied by a brief description that educates as it entertains. Place the new color stickers next to the drawings for a visual reference while you work. Coloring the drawings helps reinforce the image, shape, and colors of each shell, improving your memory and perception while offering a pleasant and easy way to learn. Fun for adults as well as children, beginnin
Author: Frederick Douglass
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: himself, john, harvard, library, written, slave, life, frederick, douglass, american, narrative
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2009-04-15
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 0674034015
ISBN-13: 9780674034013
No book more vividly explains the horror of American slavery and the emotional impetus behind the antislavery movement than Frederick Douglass’ "Narrative". In an introductory essay, Robert Stepto re-examines the extraordinary life and achievement of a man who escaped from slavery to become a leading abolitionist and one of our most important writers. The John Harvard Library text reproduces the first edition, published in Boston in 1845.
Author: Frederick Douglass
Publisher: ICON Group International, Inc.
Keywords: webster, italian, thesaurus, slave, american, life, frederick, douglass, narrative
Number of Pages: 140
Published: 2006-03-05
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0497262401
ISBN-13: 9780497262402
This edition is written in English. However, there is a running Italian thesaurus at the bottom of each page for the more difficult English words highlighted in the text. There are many editions of The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An Ameri
Author: Frederick de La Vallee Douglass
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Keywords: slave, forgotten, books, american, douglass, life, frederick, narrative
Number of Pages: 134
Published: 2008-10-15
List price: $7.60
ISBN-10: 1606209639
ISBN-13: 9781606209639
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th Century in the United States.Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass encompasses eleven chapters that recount Douglass’ life as a slave and his a
Authors:Frederick Douglass, Deborah E. McDowell,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: oxford, world, classics, slave, american, life, frederick, douglass, narrative
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2000-02-24
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0192832506
ISBN-13: 9780192832504
"I was born in Tuckahoe. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant."So begins the now-classic personal account of Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), who was born into slavery in Maryland and after his escape to Massachusetts in 1838 became an ardent abolitionist and campaigner for women’s rights. His Narrative, which was an instant bestseller upon publication i
