From the cover: “The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass puts all America under deep obligation…The figure of a great man rises from these volumes.” Dr. W.E.B. DuBois

From his own letters, speeches, interviews and essays a picture of the man and the period emerges from the pages of this book. On the eve of the most significant war ever fought by the United States the battle over the future of the hated system of chattel slavery is explored, debated and explained with the passion and intelligence of one of the most important figures in U.S. history.