Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

An American Slave, Written by Himself
2. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-312-25737-8
Verlag: Macmillan Learning

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: The Bedford Series in History and Culture

This is a book that should be on the reading list of every course on American history or literature...with its excellent notes, bibliography and appendices, this supersedes other versions available in paperback.' Adam Lively, Times Educational Supplement This new edition of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is the first prepared especially for American history courses. David W. Blight's extensive introduction and the related materials he provides place the Narrative in both its historical and literary contexts. The book also includes a chronology of Douglass's life, a bibliography, questions for consideration, illustrations, and an index. 'David Blight's introduction to the Narrative provides a rich path into Frederick Douglass's own wonderful story'. William S. McFeely, author of Frederick Douglass.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blight, David W.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword.- Preface.- Introduction.- PART ONE: THE DOCUMENT.- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself.- Notes on the Text.- PART TWO: SELECTED REVIEWS, DOCUMENTS AND SPEECHES.- Dialogue Between a Master and a Slave Review of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave.- 'Narratives of Fugitive Slaves' 'Southern Slavery and Northern Religion'.- 'My Slave Experience in Maryland'.- Letter to Thomas Auld.- 'What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?'.- Appendices.- Index.

Über Autor(innen)

DAVID W. BLIGHT is Professor of History at Yale University, USA. He taught at Amherst College for thirteen years. His scholarly work is concentrated on nineteenth-century America, with a special interest in the Civil War and Reconstruction, African-American history and American intellectual and cultural history. He has lectured widely on Frederick Douglass and served as a consultant to documentary films on African-American history, including the PBS television film Frederick Douglass: When the Lion Wrote History. His book, Frederick Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee is an award-winning intellectual biography of Douglass and a study of the meaning of the Civil War. His work Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory was awarded the Bancroft Prize in American History, the Lincoln Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize, as well as four awards from the Organization of American Historians. He is the author of numerous essays on abolitionism and African American intellectual history, and his latest work is a collection of essays entitled Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the Civil War.