"A Runaway Slave from Baltimore" contains a collection of speeches and
letters by Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), an American escaped slave who
became a prominent activist, author, and public speaker who garnered
significant acclaim for his 1845 autobiography. A leading figure in the
abolitionist movement, he fought for the end of slavery until the 1862
Emancipation Proclamation and continued to vehemently fight for human
rights until his death. This volume contains some of Douglass's most
important and powerful speeches and writings, which offer a fantastic
insight into one of the most iconic activists of the nineteenth century.
Contents include: "Speech of a Runaway Slave from Baltimore", "Why is
the Negro Lynched?", "My Escape from Slavery", "Reconstruction", "John
Brown - An Address", "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?", "West
India Emancipation", "The Color Line", and "The Future of the Colored
Race". Read & Co. Books is proudly publishing this brand new collection
of writings and speeches with an introductory poem by Paul Laurence
Dunbar and essay by Harriet Beecher Stowe.