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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
July 2009
Print publication year:
2009
Online ISBN:
9781139002547
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521889230
Collection:
Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
Subjects:
Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature: General Interest, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
Series:
Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Book description

Frederick Douglass was born a slave and lived to become a best-selling author and a leading figure of the abolitionist movement. A powerful orator and writer, Douglass provided a unique voice advocating human rights and freedom across the nineteenth century, and remains an important figure in the fight against racial injustice. This Companion, designed for students of American history and literature, includes essays from prominent scholars working in a range of disciplines. Key topics in Douglass studies - his abolitionist work, oratory, and autobiographical writings – are covered in depth, and new perspectives on religion, jurisprudence, the Civil War, romanticism, sentimentality, the Black press, and transatlanticism are offered. Accessible in style, and representing new approaches in literary and African-American studies, this book is both a lucid introduction and a contribution to existing scholarship.

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"All in all, this Cambridge Companion is a very recommendable book. Lucidly addressing many of the most important aspects of Federick Douglass's life and writings, these informed and for the most part also informing essays present a wide array of topics and approached, showing that and how Douglass played-and still plays- a crucial part in the fight against racism and injustice."
--American Studies, A Quarterly

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