Frederick Douglass

Charles W. Chesnutt's *Frederick Douglass* is a concise, admiring biography of the foremost African American abolitionist, orator, editor, and statesman of the nineteenth century. Tracing Douglass from enslavement and self-education through his escape, antislavery activism, Civil War leadership, and public service, Chesnutt presents a life shaped by intellectual discipline and moral courage. Writt...