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One of the greatest African American leaders and one of the most brilliant minds of his time, Frederick Douglass spoke and wrote with unsurpassed eloquence on almost all the major issues confronting the American people during his life—from the abolition of slavery to women's rights, from the Civil War to lynching, from American patriotism to black nationalism. Between 1950 and 1975, Philip S. Foner collected the most important of Douglass's hundreds of speeches, letters, articles, and editorials into an impressive five-volume set, now long out of print. Abridged and condensed into one volume, and supplemented with several important texts that Foner did not include, this compendium presents the most significant, insightful, and elegant short works of Douglass's massive oeuvre.
Excerpt from First Blows of the Civil War: The Ten Years of Preliminary Conflict in United States; From 1850 to 1860; A Contemporaneous Exposition; Progress of the Struggle Shown by Public Records and Private Correspondence The period covered by the following pages being one of deep historical interest and importance, must always attract a large share of public attention. It will always be memorable as the era of the last argumentative and legislative struggle on the part of the slave-holding statesmen, and that in which the advocates of African slavery received their death-blow after a contest in the national councils of near half a century. It will be evident to the reader that much of the following matter, with the exception of the private letters, which now first see the light, has already been laid before a wide circle of read ers in the New York Tribune during the period of its largest circulation. That paper, under Mr. Greeley, was the great anti slavery journal of the period, and at that time the spokesman of the most numerous and determined body of men ever associ ated for public purposes in the United States. Of the private correspondence, we wish to remark that it is presented as it was written. A more rigid rule would have excluded some of its personal features but it was thought best to preserve the individuality and local coloring by allowing the letters to stand as originally composed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
David M. Potter's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Impending Crisis is the definitive history of antebellum America. Potter's sweeping epic masterfully charts the chaotic forces that climaxed with the outbreak of the Civil War: westward expansion, the divisive issue of slavery, the Dred Scott decision, John Brown's uprising, the ascension of Abraham Lincoln, and the drama of Southern succession. Now available in a new edition, The Impending Crisis remains one of the most celebrated works of American historical writing.