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Descripton : winner of the pulitzer prize in history extraordinary a great american biography the new yorker of the most important african american of the nineteenth century frederick douglass the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era as a young man frederick douglass 1818 1895 escaped from slavery in baltimore maryland he was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress and he would go on to become one of the major literary figures of his time his very existence gave the lie to slave owners with dignity and great intelligence he bore witness to the brutality of slavery initially mentored by william lloyd garrison douglass spoke widely using his own story to condemn slavery by the civil war douglass had become the most famed and widely travelled orator in the nation in his unique and eloquent voice written and spoken douglass was a fierce critic of the united states as well as a radical patriot after the war he sometimes argued politically with younger african americans but he never forsook either the republican party or the cause of black civil and political rights in this cinematic and deeply engaging the new york times book review biography david blight has drawn on new information held in a private collection that few other historian have consulted as well as recently discovered issues of douglass s newspapers absorbing and even moving a brilliant book that speaks to our own time as well as douglass s the wall street journal blight s biography tells the fascinating story of douglass s two marriages and his complex extended family david blight has written the definitive biography of frederick douglass a powerful portrait of one of the most important american voices of the nineteenth century the boston globe in addition to the pulitzer prize frederick douglass won the bancroft parkman los angeles times biography lincoln plutarch and christopher awards and was named one of the best books of 2018 by the new york times book review the wall street journal the boston globe the chicago tribune the san francisco chronicle and time