'David Blight's graceful introduction provides the essential historical context, public as well as private, and helps us appreciate how Douglass's great book managed to be at once a piercing polemic, an extraordinary act of memory, and a masterpiece of American prose. Morris, Jr., Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives In this new edition, David Blight offers a fresh perspective on my great-great-great grandfather's life from his enslavement on the eastern shore of Maryland to his emergence as a revolutionary leader at the center of a national crisis over the future of slavery.'-Kenneth B. 'With scorching rhetoric, my heroic ancestor rails against the inhumanity of slavery while upholding the tenets of liberty with poetic elegance. This is an essential work in African-American and American history, and displays Douglass' developing strength as a writer and political leader.'-Richard Slotkin, Wesleyan University

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