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Adler, David A.

Frederick Douglass : a noble life / David A. Adler.

1st ed.

New York : Holiday House, c2010.

138 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

When, in 1879, a bust in his likeness was placed at the University of Rochester, Frederick Douglass wrote: "Incidents of this character do much amaze me. It is not, however, the height to which I have risen, but the depth from which I have come that amazes me." This biography tells the story of his ascent from slavery.

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Juvenile literature.

Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

African American abolitionists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

Antislavery movements -- United States -- Juvenile literature.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-132) and index.

A Junior Library Guild selection.

"I sobbed myself to sleep" -- "Many children but no family" -- "Why am I a slave?" -- "The turning point" -- "You rascal" -- New Bedford: "I had no master" -- The lecture circuit : "I can tell you what I have seen" -- "From house to house, and from heart to heart -- "What, to an American slave, is your 4th of July?" -- Foreshadowed a conflict on a larger scale -- "To arms!" -- "A sacred effort" -- "Young in liberty and old in slavery" -- The African-American : "like a man in a morass" -- "From first to last : a noble life" -- Important dates in the life of Frederick Douglass.

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