Frederick Douglass

This Pulitzer Prize-winning historical biography covers the extraordinary life of Frederick Douglass, the most important African-American of the nineteenth century. Born a slave, Douglass escaped and went on to become the greatest orator of his day and a leading abolitionist and writer. David Blight's captivating narrative draws upon new information and recently discovered issues of Douglass's newspapers to paint a cinematic portrait of his complex extended family and his two marriages. This is a powerful portrait of one of the most important American voices of the nineteenth century.