The book is thoroughly researched and meticulously footnoted. He looks at the magnificence of the man, warts and all. Grant (1982), looks beyond the awe of the slave-diplomat conversion. McFeely, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer for his work on Ulysses S. But Douglass not only wanted segregation and all other indignities to end for blacks immediately, he pushed for voting rights and full equality for women. Washington, was the black leader most accepted by whites because of his take-it-slow-and-easy willingness to accept segregation. His books and papers were well-considered treatises. So many others have focused on Douglass' escape from slavery and the fact that he educated himself to become one of the most-respected citizens of the day.īut doting on the slave-to-diplomat conversion detracts from Douglass' great abilities as a scholar, a writer and an activist. But that doesn't begin to explain what Douglass meant to the development of black thought in America and the advancement of the right to protest, notes William McFeely in this book written in the prose of a novelist, not the dry style of a historian. That's what Frederick Douglass accomplished in his lifetime.
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