2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In this timely and provocative book, Damon Root reveals how Frederick Douglass’s fight for an antislavery Constitution

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Until liberty is given, we shall be in a comatose or morbid condition and spiritually dead like Lazarus; it will take the authorization of the Lord to lose us f

Frederick Douglass recounts early years of abuse, his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom, abolitionist campaigns, and his crusade for full civil

“The remarkable women celebrated in [this] vibrantly illustrated collection . . . offer stirring words of encouragement to any woman, of any age” (Booklist)