02014cam a2200325 4500 1163971638 TxAuBib 20111202120000.0 090720s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2009029970 9780823420568 hardcover $18.95 0823420566 hardcover $18.95 (OCoLC)427543624 DLC DLC TEF B&T TxAuBib Adler, David A. Frederick Douglass : a noble life / David A. Adler. 1st ed. New York : Holiday House, 2010. 138 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-132) and index. "I sobbed myself to sleep" -- "Many children but no family" -- Off to Baltimore -- "The turning point" -- Escape -- New Bedford -- "I had no master" -- The lecture circuit : "I can tell you what I have seen" -- "From house to house, and from heart to heart -- "What to an American slave is your 4th of July?" -- The foreshadow of a conflict on a larger scale -- "To arms!" -- Meeting the great man -- Marshal Douglass "too smart to be a slave" -- The African-American : "like a man in a morass" -- "From first to last : a noble life" -- Important dates in the life of Frederick Douglass. When, in 1879, a bust in his likeness was placed at the University of Rochester, Frederick Douglass wrote: "Incidents of this character do much amaze me. It is not, however, the height to which I have risen, but the depth from which I have come that amazes me." This biography tells the story of his ascent from slavery. 20111202. A Junior Library Guild selection. Douglass, Frederick 1818-1895. Abolitionists United States Biography. African American abolitionists Biography. Antislavery movements United States. TXKIP