Ebook: Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn
Author: Frederick Douglass, Theodore Hamm
- Tags: Antislavery movements, Antislavery movements--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century, Race relations, History, Douglass Frederick -- 1818-1895, Antislavery movements -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century, Brooklyn (New York N.Y.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century, New York (State) -- New York, New York (State) -- New York -- Brooklyn
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Akashic Books
- City: Brooklyn (New York;N.Y.);New York (State);New York;Brooklyn
- Language: English
- epub
"Insight into the remarkable life of a remarkable man. [Frederick] Douglass in Brooklyn shows how the great author and agitator associated with radicals—and he associated with the president of the United States. A fine book."
—Errol Louis, host of NY1's Road to City Hall
"This collection of Douglass's speeches in Brooklyn displays the power of the former slave's oratory before, during, and after the Civil War. Editor Hamm, a professor of media studies, places a selection of carefully reconstructed speeches in this slim volume, and gives useful context on how they were locally received. A concise introduction provides detail about 19th-century Brooklyn and its conflicted legacy of racial prejudice and abolitionism. When Douglass's own words are reproduced, his talent as a writer and the sheer monstrousness of slavery are both driven home."
—Publishers Weekly
"A collection of rousing 19th-century speeches on...