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Dilbeck, D. H.
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Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Religion.
Abolitionists, Black -- United States -- Biography.
Orators, Black -- United States -- Biography.
Social reformers, Black -- Biography.
Blacks -- United States -- Civil rights -- History -- 19th century.
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Dilbeck, D. H.
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Religion.
Abolitionists, Black -- United States -- Biography.
Orators, Black -- United States -- Biography.
Social reformers, Black -- Biography.
Blacks -- United States -- Civil rights -- History -- 19th century.
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Frederick
Douglass
:
America
's
prophet
/ D. H. Dilbeck.
by
Dilbeck, D. H.
The University of North Carolina Press, 2018.
Call #:
326.8092 D737d
Subjects
Douglass
,
Frederick
, 1818-1895.
Douglass
,
Frederick
, 1818-1895 -- Religion.
Abolitionists, Black -- United States -- Biography.
Orators, Black -- United States -- Biography.
Social reformers, Black -- Biography.
Blacks -- United States -- Civil rights -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN:
9781469636184 (hc.)
Description:
191 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
A voice crying in the wilderness of Christian slaveholding
America
-- The seeking slave, 1818-1838 -- God and slavery on the Eastern Shore -- Religious awakenings in Baltimore -- From the valley of shadows to freedom -- The zealous orator, 1839-1852 -- The young abolitionist orator -- Bearing witness in Great Britain -- An antislavery constitution and a righteous violence -- The hopeful
prophet
, 1853-1895 -- The crisis of the union -- Reconstruction battles over racial and gender equality -- At the dark dawn of Jim Crow -- Unraveling the mysteries of God'
s
providence and progress --
Frederick
Douglass
is not dead!.
Summary:
From his enslavement to freedom,
Frederick
Douglass
was one of
America
's most extraordinary champions of liberty and equality.
Douglass
came to faith as a teenager among African American Methodists in Baltimore. For the rest of his life, he adhered to a distinctly prophetic Christianity. Imitating the ancient Hebrew prophets and Jesus Christ,
Douglass
boldly condemned evil and oppression, especially when committed by the powerful.
Douglass
's prophetic Christianity provided purpose and unity to his wide-ranging work as an author, editor, orator, and reformer. As "
America
's
Prophet
,"
Douglass
exposed his nation'
s
moral failures and hypocrisies in the hopes of creating a more just society.
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Biographies.
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