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Size: 6x1x9; [Interesting provenance: From the private library of renowned

Size: 6x1x9; [Interesting provenance: From the private library of renowned historian, Philip D. Morgan. ] Softcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Reading creases to spine. Contains Philip Morgan's personal notes. A former slave, orator, journalist, autobiographer, and revolutionary on behalf of a just America, Douglass was a towering figure, at once consummately charismatic and flawed. In this biography, fresh and incisive in its research and interpretation, Freeley captures the many sides of this great and complex American, and recreates the high drama of a turbulent era. From the professional library of Dr. Philip D. Morgan, a professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Morgan specializes in the African-American experience, the history of slavery, the early Caribbean, and the study of the early Atlantic world. Morgan is the author of more than 14 books on Colonial America and African American history. He has won both the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for his book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998).

xiii, 465 pages. Map. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. A former

xiii, 465 pages. Map. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. A former slave, orator, journalist, autobiographer, and revolutionary on behalf of a just America, Douglass was a towering figure, at once consumately charismatic and flawed. In this biography, fresh and incisive in its research and interpretation, Freeley captures the many sides of this great and complex American, and recreates the high drama of a turbulent era.