Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) is best known for the telling of his own
emancipation. But there is much more to Douglass's story than his time
spent enslaved and his famous autobiography. Facing Frederick captures
the whole complicated, and at times perplexing, person that he was.
Statesman, suffragist, writer, and newspaperman, this book focuses on
Douglass the man rather than the historical icon.