Written in 1899 for the Beacon Biographies of eminent Americans, this short life traces Frederick Douglass from slavery in Maryland and his escape north to his career as an anti-slavery orator, editor in Rochester and statesman. Chesnutt sets his subject against the abolitionist movement, the Liberty party and the Civil War.
Two great Black writers meet here, Chesnutt summing up Douglass for a generation that had just lost him. Download the free EPUB.