{"product_id":"the-oxford-frederick-douglass-reader-frederick-douglass-9780195091182","title":"The Oxford Frederick Douglass Reader","description":"\u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Frederick Douglass Reader\u003c\/em\u003e collects in one volume the most outstanding and representative work from Frederick Douglass's fifty-year writing career, including all the major genres in which he worked: autobiography, journalism, oratory, and fiction. The \u003cem\u003eReader\u003c\/em\u003e contains the following classic texts in their entirety: the landmark fugitive slave narrative \u003cem\u003eNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave\u003c\/em\u003e (1845); the consummate anti-slavery oration \"What To the Slave Is the Fourth of July?\" (1852); the pioneering novella \u003cem\u003eThe Heroic Slave\u003c\/em\u003e (1853); and the magisterial analysis of lynching \u003cem\u003eLessons of the Hour\u003c\/em\u003e (1894). Generous selections from Douglass's second autobiography, \u003cem\u003eMy Bondage and My Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e (1855), illustrate his boldly revisionist personal and political agenda, while major chapters from both the 1881 and the 1892 editions of the final autobiography, \u003cem\u003eLife and Times of Frederick Douglass\u003c\/em\u003e, reveal the author's perspective on his own successes and his estimate of the nation's progress on the racial front in the post-war era. Also included are notable examples of Douglass's journalism, in which he advocated women's rights and black enlistment in the Civil War. In addition, the private as well as the public Douglass finds a voice in the \u003cem\u003eReader\u003c\/em\u003e, 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. \u003cbr\u003e Editor William L. Andrews has provided an introduction and headnotes that give basic, accessible information regarding Douglass's life, writing purposes, and the reception of his texts, offering a thoughtful review of the crucial developments in Douglass's multiple careers as autobiographer, journalist, lecturer, and racial spokesman. \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Frederick Douglass Reader\u003c\/em\u003e provides students and readers with the most complete, diverse, and personally revealing record available of nineteenth-century black America's most celebrated writer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frederick Douglass\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0195091183\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195091182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/18\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.18h x 6.10w x 1.00d","brand":"Frederick Douglass","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946266099967,"sku":"9780195091182","price":117.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_66a35b44-457c-4020-bfe9-a5d22b152d1b.jpg?v=1681512276","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-oxford-frederick-douglass-reader-frederick-douglass-9780195091182","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}