{"product_id":"frederick-douglass-prophet-of-freedom-9781416590316","title":"Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom","description":"\u003cb\u003e**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History**\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Extraordinary...a great American biography\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a young man Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major literary figures of his time. His very existence gave the lie to slave owners: with dignity and great intelligence he bore witness to the brutality of slavery. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInitially mentored by William Lloyd Garrison, Douglass spoke widely, using his own story to condemn slavery. By the Civil War, Douglass had become the most famed and widely travelled orator in the nation. In his unique and eloquent voice, written and spoken, Douglass was a fierce critic of the United States as well as a radical patriot. After the war he sometimes argued politically with younger African Americans, but he never forsook either the Republican party or the cause of black civil and political rights. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this \"cinematic and deeply engaging\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) biography, David Blight has drawn on new information held in a private collection that few other historian have consulted, as well as recently discovered issues of Douglass's newspapers. \"Absorbing and even moving...a brilliant book that speaks to our own time as well as Douglass's\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e), Blight's biography tells the fascinating story of Douglass's two marriages and his complex extended family. \"David Blight has written \u003ci\u003ethe \u003c\/i\u003edefinitive biography of Frederick Douglass...a powerful portrait of one of the most important American voices of the nineteenth century\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn addition to the Pulitzer Prize, \u003ci\u003eFrederick Douglass\u003c\/i\u003e won the Bancroft, Parkman\u003ci\u003e, Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e (biography), Lincoln, Plutarch, and Christopher awards and was named one of the Best Books of 2018 by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTime.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlight, David W.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - David W. Blight is the Sterling Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. He is the author or editor of a dozen books, including \u003ci\u003eAmerican Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eRace and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory\u003c\/i\u003e; and annotated editions of Douglass's first two autobiographies. He has worked on Douglass much of his professional life, and been awarded the Bancroft Prize, the Abraham Lincoln Prize, and the Frederick Douglass Prize, among others.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50614974382354,"sku":"9781416590316","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b44c78a0-9a03-4310-8767-6722eeb3bc57.jpg?v=1732470082","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/frederick-douglass-prophet-of-freedom-9781416590316","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}