Booker T. Washington tells the life of Frederick Douglass from his boyhood in Maryland slavery and his escape north to his career as an orator, editor and statesman. Chapters follow his refuge in England, the Underground Railroad and the Fugitive Slave Law, his dealings with Harriet Beecher Stowe and John Brown, and the gathering crisis of the Civil War.
One great African American leader writing about another, a revealing portrait for students of abolition and Reconstruction. Download the free EPUB.