Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental American Man

Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental American Man

by Tonya Bolden
Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental American Man

Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental American Man

by Tonya Bolden

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Overview

Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) is best known for the telling of his own emancipation. But there is much more to Douglass’s story than his time spent enslaved and his famous autobiography. Facing Frederick captures the whole complicated, and at times perplexing, person that he was. Statesman, suffragist, writer, and newspaperman, this book focuses on Douglass the man rather than the historical icon.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781419725463
Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers
Publication date: 01/09/2018
Pages: 208
Sales rank: 1,135,585
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range: 10 - 14 Years

About the Author

Tonya Bolden has written more than 20 books for children and adults. Her book Tell All the Children Our Story: Memories and Mementos of Being Young and Black in America was named a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal. Her Wake Up Our Souls: A Celebration of Black American Artists received a starred review in Booklist magazine. Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl was named a YALSA Best Book for Young Adults, an ALSC 2006 Notable Children’s Book, a NAPPA Gold Award Winner, a CCBC Best Book of the Year, a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, and a Coretta Scott King Honor Book. She lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

A Note on Early Photography vi

1 A Soul to Aspire 1

2 One the World Over 16

3 Ships upon a Storing Sea 37

4 The Voice of Inspiration 53

5 No Time for Us to Leave the Country 66

6 We Are All Liberated 93

7 A New World 111

8 Promises in Your Constitution 127

9 Leaf from a Living Tree 152

Author's Note 170

"Frederick Douglass" Robert Hayden 174

Time Line 174

Notes 181

Selected Sources 193

Acknowledgments 195

Image Credits 196

Index 198

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