Frederick Douglass: A Biography

Frederick Douglass lived so long and played so conspicuous a part on the world’s stage that it would be impossible in a work of the size of this to do more than touch upon the salient features of his career to suggest the respects in which he influenced the course of events in his lifetime and to epitomize for the readers of another generation the judgment of his contemporaries as to his genius and his character. Douglass’s fame as an orator has long been secure. His position as the champion of an oppressed race and at the same time an example of its possibilities was in his own generation as picturesque as it was unique; and his life may serve for all time as an incentive to aspiring souls who would fight the battles and win the love of mankind.