The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches

Description

In addition to a thoughtful selection of the essays, speeches, and autobiographical writings of Frederick Douglass, this anthology provides an illuminating Introduction; a timeline of Douglass' life; footnotes that introduce individuals, quotations, and events; and a selected bibliography.

Nicholas Buccola is Associate Professor of Political Science, and Founding Director of the Frederick Douglass Forum on Law, Rights, and Justice at Linfield College. He is the author of The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass.

"For years I have wanted a compact, carefully edited collection of Frederick Douglass' writings and speeches spanning his whole careerfrom the antebellum years to the Civil War and Reconstruction to the retreat from racial democracy in the 1870s, '80s, and '90s. Finally, in Nicholas Buccola's expertly edited The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings & Speeches, I have it. Buccola has done teachers and scholars of American political thought a tremendous service by making a truly representative selection of Douglass' achievement available in an affordable volume. I am excited to assign this book to my students and share with them the full breadth of Douglass' intellectual fire." Jack Turner, University of Washington " The Essential Douglass is essential reading for students of American politics and American political thought. Nick Buccola does a masterful job of enriching and enhancing our acquaintance with Frederick Douglass, the author, orator, and abolitionist. In this volume, we see Douglass in his full range and in his full capacity as an American statesman." Susan McWilliams, Pomona College