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His autobiography was his first appearance to a broad public audience on a national stage and featured a man of superior intelligence, incisive analytical skills, and a remarkable facility for language.

But in 1845, Douglass was not yet a world-renowned orator and civil rights champion. David Blight’s 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of one of the most famous nineteenth century persons of color stands alone as the definitive treatment of his life. Mercer University Press, 2021, $16.00 paperbackįrederick Douglass hardly needs an introduction to students of the American Civil War. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slaveīy Frederick Douglass, Introduction by Scott C.