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Written by three of the most prominent black writers of the nineteenth century, this trio of compelling early classics of African-American literature paints unforgettable portraits of strength and determination framed by the shackles of slavery. Abolitionist authors Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown, and spiritualist Harriet E. Wilson were former slaves whose writings transformed their hardships into stunning depictions of racial oppression....
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Musaicum Books presents to you a unique collection of the recorded testimonies of former slaves, memoirs, historical studies, reports of the life and laws in the south, legislation on civil rights, as well as popular fiction, which unveiled the injustice and horrors of slavery to the masses:
Slave Narratives
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
The Underground Railroad
Harriet: The Moses of Her People
12 Years a Slave
Life, Last Words and Dying...
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African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of enslaved people narratives, African-American literature was dominated by autobiographical spiritual narratives. The genre known as slave narratives in the 19th century were accounts by people who had generally escaped from slavery,...
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In 1852, Frederick Douglass, former slave and, by then, a leading figure in the abolitionist movement was, asked by the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Association to address the group for their July 4th celebration at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York.
Delivered, in fact, on the 5th of July, the speech caused an immediate sensation and swiftly became a seminal rallying cry of the abolitionist movement in America. The audience in Rochester included...
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"A Runaway Slave from Baltimore" contains a collection of speeches and letters by Frederick Douglass (1818—1895), an American escaped slave who became a prominent activist, author, and public speaker who garnered significant acclaim for his 1845 autobiography. A leading figure in the abolitionist movement, he fought for the end of slavery until the 1862 Emancipation Proclamation and continued to vehemently fight for human rights until his death....
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Today Frederick Douglass is best, known for his autobiographies; but while he was alive, he was known as a fiery orator who was always in demand. Collected here are ten of Frederick Douglass' addresses. And while, it is impossible to hear Frederick Douglass speak today, these addresses still manage to instill a sense of just how powerful and intelligent Douglass was. Included here are: The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro, What the Black Man Wants,...
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Collected here are both of Frederick Douglass' magazine articles: "My Escape from Slavery," and "Reconstruction," as well as his address "The Hypocrisy of American Slavery." These pieces show Douglass at his rhetorical best. Important reading for anyone wanting more after reading his Autobiographies.
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The Frederick Douglass Megapack provides a selection of the works of Frederick Douglas, including 2 autobiographies as well as essays, speeches, and slave narratives. Included are:
NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE
MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM
RECEPTION SPEECH
THE NATURE OF SLAVERY
INHUMANITY OF SLAVERY
WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE FOURTH OF JULY?
THE INTERNAL SLAVE TRADE
THE SLAVERY PARTY
THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT
MY...
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Frederick Douglass was born in slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland. He was not sure of the exact year of his birth, but he knew that it was 1817 or 1818. As a young boy he was sent to Baltimore, to be a house servant, where he learned to read and write, with the assistance of his master's wife. In 1838 he escaped from slavery and went to New York City, where he married Anna Murray, a free colored...
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