Women in the World of Frederick Douglass [#527356]

Leigh Fought, "Women in the World of Frederick Douglass"
English | ISBN: 0199782377 | 2017 | 424 pages | EPUB | 19 MB
In his extensive writings, Frederick Douglass revealed little about his private life. His famous autobiographies present him overcoming unimaginable trials to gain his freedom and establish his identity-all in service to his public role as an abolitionist. But in both the public and domestic spheres, Douglass relied on a complicated array of relationships with women: white and black, slave-mistresses and family, political collaborators and intellectual companions, wives and daughters. And the great man needed them throughout a turbulent life that was never so linear and self-made as he often wished to portray it.