Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass is the third and most comprehensive autobiography of the famed abolitionist and orator, chronicling his life from enslavement through his later political and diplomatic career.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf autobiography
book
nonfiction work
author Douglass
surface form: Frederick Douglass
chronicles life of Frederick Douglass from enslavement to later years
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
covers Douglass’s abolitionist activities
Douglass’s diplomatic service
Douglass’s early life in slavery
Douglass’s escape from slavery
Douglass’s political career
Douglass’s work as an orator
describedAs most comprehensive autobiography of Frederick Douglass
follows My Bondage and My Freedom
genre autobiography
memoir
slave narrative
hasForm first-person narrative
hasHistoricalContext slavery, Civil War, and Reconstruction in the United States
hasMainCharacter Douglass
surface form: Frederick Douglass
hasTheme human rights
oratory and persuasion
political activism
racial justice
self-emancipation
struggle for freedom
intendedAudience general readership
isThirdAutobiographyOf Douglass
surface form: Frederick Douglass
language English
literaryPeriod 19th-century American literature
notableFor detailed account of Douglass’s later political life
firsthand perspective on 19th-century American politics
portrays abolitionist movement in the United States
conditions of slavery in the United States
relatedWork My Bondage and My Freedom
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
subject African-American history
American Civil War
Douglass
surface form: Frederick Douglass

Reconstruction era
abolitionism
slavery in the United States

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Frederick Douglass notableWork Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Douglass wrote Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
subject surface form: Frederick Douglass