William Lloyd Garrison
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Language
English
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"The story of Frederick Douglass is passionate, harrowing, and inspiring. As a former slave, impassioned abolitionist, gifted writer, newspaper editor, and powerful orator, Douglass was an immense, motivational figure. His early life, filled with physical abuse, deprivation, and tragedy, adds up to a heart-wrenching history. However, he was able to overcome everything that bound a slave to his life and become a leading spokesman for his people. In...
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Language
English
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"An updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materials. The preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass's Narrative powerfully details the life of the abolitionist from his birth into slavery to his escape to the North in 1838. Douglass tells how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and drivers, how he learned to read and write, and how...
Author
Pub. Date
1803
Language
English
Description
N. Brooks personal correspondence includes ALS from: daughter Caroline; Daniel Brooks; son George; brothers Charles, Franklin (who was seriously in debt and mentally unstable), Hiram, Humphrey, Isaac, and Joshua; Louisa, Mary, and William Brooks; John H. Hartwell; Martha Keith; E.F. Paige (a college friend); and others (among them George B. Emerson, Samuel Hoar, Levi Lincoln, Ezra Ripley, and Samuel Ripley). Correspondence to other Brooks family members...
Author
Pub. Date
1816
Language
English
Description
Scrapbooks, albums, correspondence, mss., composition book, autograph album, birthday book, photo. albums, & loose photos. Series Samuel R. Bartlett & Eva M.W. Bartlett includes family scrapbook containing items 1816-1902, among them: papers of Josiah & Martha T.B. Bartlett, 1816-1878 (incl. marriage intention, 1861 pass from military headquarters in Washington, address before Mass. Medical Soc., ALS from William Lloyd Garrison, biographical & obituary...
