TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dilbeck,D.H.
TI  - Frederick Douglass: America's prophet 
SN  - 9781469636184 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - E449.D75 D55 2018
U1  - 973.8092B 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Douglass, Frederick,
KW  - African American abolitionists
KW  - Biography
KW  - African American orators
KW  - United States
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-198) and index; A voice crying in the wilderness of Christian slaveholding America -- The seeking slave, 1818-1838 -- God and slavery on the Eastern Shore -- Religious awakenings in Baltimore -- From the valley of shadows to freedom -- The zealous orator, 1839-1852 -- The young abolitionist orator -- Bearing witness in Great Britain -- An antislavery constitution and a righteous violence -- The hopeful prophet, 1853-1895 -- The crisis of the union -- Reconstruction battles over racial and gender equality -- At the dark dawn of Jim Crow -- Unraveling the mysteries of God's providence and progress -- Frederick Douglass is not dead!
N2  - "Frederick Douglass was born into slavery on Maryland's Eastern Shore and became an extraordinary champion of liberty and equality. Throughout his long life, Douglass was also a man of profound religious conviction. ... With an eye toward explaining how Douglass's religious beliefs shaped his influential public career, Dilbeck retells the story of Douglass's life"--
ER  -