Stauffer, John

Summary: Picturing Frederick Douglass is a work that promises to revolutionize our knowledge of race and photography in nineteenth-century America. Teeming with historical detail, it is filled with surprises, chief among them the fact that neither George Custer nor Walt Whitman, and not even Abraham Lincoln, was the most photographed American of that century. In fact, it was Frederick Douglass...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 921 DOUGLASS, FREDERICK STA

Fankhouser, Kris

Summary: "A biography on the African American abolitionist and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DOU

Fought, Leigh

Summary: "In his extensive writings--editorials, speeches, autobiographies--Frederick Douglass revealed little about the private side of his life. His famous autobiographies were very much in the service of presenting and advocating for himself. But Douglass had a very complicated array of relationships with women: white and black, wives and lovers, mistresses-owners, and sisters and daughters. And this...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 FOU

Keller, Shana

Summary: "Frederick Douglass knew that learning to read and write would be the first step in his quest for freedom. Told from first-person perspective and using some of Douglass's own words, this biography draws from his experiences as a young boy and his attempts to learn how to read and write."--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DOU