Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass rose to become one of the nation's foremost intellectuals--a statesman, author, lecturer, and scholar who helped lead the fight against slavery and racial oppression. Unlike other leading abolitionists, however, Douglass embraced the U.S. Constitution, insisting that it was an essentially anti-slavery document and that its guarantees for individual rights belonged to all Americans, of whatever race.As the nation pauses to remember Douglass on his bicentennial, Frederick Douglass: Self-Made Man gives us an insightful glimpse into the mind of one of America's greatest thinkers.…mehr
Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass rose to become one of the nation's foremost intellectuals--a statesman, author, lecturer, and scholar who helped lead the fight against slavery and racial oppression. Unlike other leading abolitionists, however, Douglass embraced the U.S. Constitution, insisting that it was an essentially anti-slavery document and that its guarantees for individual rights belonged to all Americans, of whatever race.As the nation pauses to remember Douglass on his bicentennial, Frederick Douglass: Self-Made Man gives us an insightful glimpse into the mind of one of America's greatest thinkers.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Timothy Sandefur is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and a principal attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to defending property rights and economic liberty. He is the author of The Right to Earn a Living: Economic Freedom and the Law (Cato Institute, 2010) and The Conscience of the Constitution (Cato Institute, 2014), Cornerstone of Liberty: Property Rights in 21st Century America (Cato Institute, Second Edition, 2016), and The Permission Society: How the Ruling Class Turns Our Freedoms into Privileges and What We Can Do About It (Encounter Books, 2016 . He is a graduate of Hillsdale College and Chapman University School of Law.
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Introduction Chapter 1 Early Years: 1818 1826 Chapter 2 Baltimore: 1826 1835 Chapter 3 The Escape: 1835 1839 Chapter 4 Entering The Antislavery Cause: 1839 1845 Chapter 5 Great Britain And Conversion: 1845 1852 Chapter 6 The War: 1852 1865 Chapter 7 Reconstruction: 1865 1876 Chapter 8 The Fraud: 1876 1884 Chapter 9 Abroad: 1884 1895 Chapter 10 Legacy Notes