{"product_id":"if-i-survive-celeste-marie-bernier-9781474429283","title":"If I Survive: Frederick Douglass and Family in the Walter O. Evans Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePreviously unseen speeches, letters, autobiographies, and photographs of Frederick Douglass and his sons, Lewis Henry, Frederick Jr. and Charles Remond Douglass, from the Walter O. Evans collection\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhile the many public lives of Frederick Douglass - as the representative 'fugitive slave', autobiographer, orator, abolitionist, reformer, philosopher and statesman - are lionised worldwide, \u003ci\u003eIf I Survive \u003c\/i\u003esheds light on the private life of Douglass the family man. For the first time, this book provides readers with a collective biography mapping the activism, authorship and artistry of Douglass and his sons, Lewis Henry, Frederick Jr. and Charles Remond Douglass. In one volume, the history of the Douglass family appears alongside full colour facsimile reproductions of their over 80 previously unpublished speeches, letters, autobiographies and photographs held in the Walter O. Evans Collection. All of life can be found within these pages: romance, hope, despair, love, life, death, war, protest, politics, art, and friendship. Working together and against a changing backdrop of US slavery, Civil War and Reconstruction, the Douglass family fought for a new 'dawn of freedom'. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarking the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass' birth, this first collective history and comprehensive collection of the Douglass family writings and portraits sheds new light not only on Douglass as a freedom-fighter and family man but on the lives and works of Lewis Henry, Frederick Jr., and Charles Remond. As civil rights protesters, essayists, autobiographers, and orators in their own right, they each played a vital role in the 'struggles for the cause of liberty' of their father. As published here, each of their original writings and portraits is accompanied by an explanatory essay and in-depth scholarly annotatations as well as a detailed bibliography. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecognising that the Frederick Douglass that is needed in a twenty-first century Black Lives Matter era is no infallible icon but a mortal individual, \u003ci\u003eIf I Survive \u003c\/i\u003esituates the lives and works of Douglass and his family within the social, political, historical and cultural contexts in which they lived and worked. Each unafraid to die for the cause, they dedicated their lives to the \"emancipation of the slave\" and to social justice by every means necessary. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Foreword is written by Robert S. Levine and the Afterword is authored by Kim F. Hall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Celeste-Marie Bernier, Andrew Taylor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474429289\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474429283\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 880\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 5.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.70h x 7.40w x 1.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2018 pg. 14\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2018 pg. 67","brand":"Celeste-Marie Bernier","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43992054563071,"sku":"9781474429283","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0208b422-98d5-41c9-9ab1-977e783ad3d3.jpg?v=1683313787","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/if-i-survive-celeste-marie-bernier-9781474429283","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}