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Drawing on previously untapped sources, Young Frederick Douglass recreates with fidelity and in convincing detail the background and early life of the man who was to become "the gadfly of America's conscience" and the undisputed spokesman for nineteenth-century black Americans.

This highly regarded biography traces the life and times of Frederick Douglass from his birth on Maryland's Eastern Shore in 1818 until 1838, when he escaped from slavery to emerge...

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  • PublisherThe Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publication date1985
  • ISBN 10 0801827396
  • ISBN 13 9780801827396
  • BindingPaperback
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Number of pages242
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