| Frederick Douglass Contributor(s): Chesnutt, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 1535587539 ISBN-13: 9781535587532 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $7.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Literary Collections | Ancient, Classical & Medieval - Biography & Autobiography | Social Activists |
| Dewey: 973.8 |
| Series: Frederick Douglass |
| Physical Information: 0.11" H x 7.01" W x 10" (0.24 lbs) 52 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Frederick Douglass - Charles Chesnutt... Douglass's fame as an orator has long been secure. His position as the champion of an oppressed race, and at the same time an example of its possibilities, was, in his own generation, as picturesque as it was unique; and his life may serve for all time as an incentive to aspiring souls who would fight the battles and win the love of mankind. The average American of to-day who sees, when his attention is called to it, and deplores, if he be a thoughtful and just man, the deep undertow of race prejudice that retards the progress of the colored people of our own generation, cannot, except by reading the painful records of the past, conceive of the mental and spiritual darkness to which slavery, as the inexorable condition of its existence, condemned its victims and, in a less measure, their oppressors, or of the blank wall of proscription and scorn by which free people of color were shut up in a moral and social Ghetto, the gates of which have yet not been entirely torn down. |