03333cam a2200385 i 4500 1900627273 TxAuBib 20250130120000.0 231014s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023942521 9780998825793 hardcover 0998825794 hardcover (OCoLC)1402736082 TxAuBib rda Morrison, Sidney, author. Frederick Douglass : a novel / Sidney Morrison. First US edition. [Portland, Oregon] : Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts, 2024. ©2024. 672 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Sidney Morrison has skillfully written an epic novel of historical fiction based on the life and times of Fredrick Douglass. Although Douglass wrote three autobiographies, he included scant details of his personal life with his wife, Anna Murray Douglass, and five children; his lengthy relationship with English abolitionist, Julia Griffiths; followed by an extensive relationship with Ottilie Assing, a German reporter then living in the United States who died by suicide shortly after the death of Anna Douglass and Frederick's remarriage to his younger white secretary, Helen Pitts. Morrison deftly constructs a psychologically complex portrait of the historical icon who lived during a perilous time in American history before and after the Civil War as an enslaved man who escaped tyranny and established himself as an extraordinary orator, intellectual, writer, newspaper owner and editor As United States Marshall of the District of Columbia, Frederick Douglass was the first African American confirmed for a presidential appointment by the U.S. Senate. He then served as minister and consul general to Haiti. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln after the Emancipation Proclamation left Andrew Johnson in the White House while the South descended into chaos, disenfranchisement of Blacks, and terror during Reconstruction. Douglass' fierce crusading continued and he was fundamental in achieving voting rights for Black men. In 1895 Frederick Douglass died suddenly renowned as the nation's most recognized Black activist. Despite Douglass' significant contributions, Reconstruction failed to establish Black equality. One hundred and twenty years later white supremacy continues to occupy the American psyche and impact modern politics on flagrant display during President Barack Obama's two terms and the subsequent Trump years. After the murder of George Floyd, Black Lives Matter continues the activism inspired by the words and example of one of the Founders of the movement, Frederick Douglass"-- Provided by publisher. 20250130. Douglass, Frederick 1818-1895 Fiction. Enslaved persons Maryland Fiction. Abolitionists United States Fiction. Freed persons Fiction. United States History 19th century Fiction. United States Social conditions Fiction. Historical fiction. lcgft Biographical fiction. TXKIP