{"product_id":"the-oxford-frederick-douglass-reader","title":"The Oxford Frederick Douglass Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Oxford Frederick Douglass Reader collects in one volume the most outstanding and representative work from Frederick Douglasss fifty-year writing career  including all the major genres in which he worked: autobiography  journalism  oratory  and fiction. The Reader contains the following classic texts in their entirety: the landmark fugitive slave narrative Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass  An American Slave (1845); the consummate anti-slavery oration \"What To the Slave Is the Fourth of July?\" (1852); the pioneering novella The Heroic Slave (1853); and the magisterial analysis of lynching Lessons of the Hour (1894). Generous selections from Douglasss second autobiography  My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)  illustrate his boldly revisionist personal and political agenda  while major chapters from both the 1881 and the 1892 editions of the final autobiography  Life and Times of Frederick Douglass  reveal the authors perspective on his own successes and his estimate of the nations progress on the racial front in the post-war era. Also included are notable examples of Douglasss journalism  in which he advocated womens rights and black enlistment in the Civil War. In addition  the private as well as the public Douglass finds a voice in the Reader  as he responds to criticism of his decision to choose a white woman as his second wife and also discloses his carefully guarded views of religion through a little-known 1886 letter. Editor William L. Andrews has provided an introduction and headnotes that give basic  accessible information regarding Douglasss life  writing purposes  and the reception of his texts  offering a thoughtful review of the crucial developments in Douglasss multiple careers as autobiographer  journalist  lecturer  and racial spokesman. The Oxford Frederick Douglass Reader provides students and readers with the most complete  diverse  and personally revealing record available of nineteenth-century black Americas most celebrated writer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44984653283381,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195091183","price":43.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195091182.jpg?v=1770840688","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-oxford-frederick-douglass-reader","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}