Frederick Douglass' Civil War Keeping Faith in Jubilee

Name: Frederick Douglass' Civil War Keeping Faith in Jubilee
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ISBN: 9780807117248

ISBN-10: 0807117242

ISBN-13: 9780807117248

Edition: 1991 (Reprint)

Authors: David W. Blight

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In this sensitive intellectual biography David W. Blight undertakes the first systematic analysis of the impact of the Civil War on Frederick Douglass' life and thought, offering new insights into the meaning of the war in American history and in the Afro-American experience. Frederick Douglass' Civil War follows Douglass' intellectual and personal growth from the political crises of the 1850s through secession, war, black enlistment, emancipation, and Reconstruction. This book provides an engrossing story of Douglass' development of a social identity in relation to transforming events, and demonstrates that he saw the Civil War as the Second American Revolution, and himself as one of the…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: LSU Press
Publication date: 7/1/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

David W. Blight is professor of American history and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.