![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even if the author's prose can shade into a fulsome ripeness, "Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom" is superb. Blight has spent the better part of his scholarly career pondering Douglass’ odyssey. Blight captures the many sides of this complex man. In one of the year’s most impressive biographies, Yale historian David W. Self-taught, Douglass was blessed with abundant literary gifts that he showcased in hundreds of articles and a series of classic autobiographies. With an almost unmatched rhetorical firepower, Douglass mounted a devastating critique of slavery, its psychological effects on both master and enslaved, and its dire meanings for the Republic. ![]() Born Fredrick Bailey in 1818 on Maryland’s Eastern Shore to a slave woman and a white man whose identity remains unknown, Douglass made a daring escape from captivity in 1838, settled in the North - he lived in Rochester for many years - and quickly emerged as a star orator and ferocious abolitionist. Frederick Douglass’ journey from slavery to freedom to renown is one of the astounding stories of 19th-century America. ![]()
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