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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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Yair Ben-Zvi
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A slight but powerful work. Douglass, with supreme erudition, detail, and conviction, outlines a bleak era in America’s history through the lens of his own experiences. The work does lack; Douglass’s voice while angry and for the most part righteous can be inconsistent in its views (especially in the admittedly tricky navigation between being a God fearing Christian in a nation of God fearing Christian slaveholders) and a bit self aggrandizing in his role as a ‘speaker of his people’. But overal ...more
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Frederick Douglass is one of the character's in Colum McCann's new book TransAtlantic! ...more
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