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If I Survive : Frederick Douglass and Family in the Walter O. Evans Collection by Celeste-Marie Bernier; Kim F Hall; Robert S Levine; Andrew Taylor is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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## Previously unseen speeches, letters, autobiographies, and photographs of Frederick Douglass and his sons, Lewis Henry, Frederick Jr. and Charles Remond Douglass, from the Walter O. Evans collection While the many public lives of Frederick Douglass – as the representative ‘fugitive slave’, autobiographer, orator, abolitionist, reformer, philosopher and statesman – are lionised worldwide, __If I Survive__ sheds light on the private life of Douglass the family man. For the first time, this book provides readers with a collective biography mapping the activism, authorship and artistry of Douglass and his sons, Lewis Henry, Frederick Jr. and Charles Remond Douglass. In one volume, the history of the Douglass family appears alongside full colour facsimile reproductions of their over 80 previously unpublished speeches, letters, autobiographies and photographs held in the Walter O. Evans Collection. All of life can be found within these pages: romance, hope, despair, love, life, death, war, protest, politics, art, and friendship. Working together and against a changing backdrop of US slavery, Civil War and Reconstruction, the Douglass family fought for a new ‘dawn of freedom’. Marking t

Who reads If I Survive : Frederick Douglass and Family in the Walter O. Evans Collection?

Author

Celeste-Marie Bernier; Kim F Hall; Robert S Levine; Andrew Taylor

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474439749

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Historical Fiction, History