Young Frederick Douglass : the Maryland years / Dickson J. Preston ; with a new foreword by David W. Blight.

Author: Preston, Dickson J., 1914-1985, author.

ImprintBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.

Imprint1980

Descriptionxx, 280 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Note:Part 1. A boy named Frederick. The Bailey heritage ; Father image: Aaron Anthony ; Frederick's birth ; The Colonel and the slave boy ; Rule by terror ; Fells Point ; Teen-age rebel ; Rebirth ; Preparation for freedom -- Part 2. The exile's return. Postwar reunions ; Homecoming to Talbot -- Appendix A: A Douglass chronology -- Appendix B. Genealogy of Frederick Douglass.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-269) and index.

Note:Details Douglass's life from birth to his escape North and recounts his experience as a slave, his flight to freedom, and his subsequent return to Maryland as the national spokesman for black Americans.

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