The Frederick Douglass Encyclopedia

The Frederick Douglass Encyclopedia achieves something quite remarkable. In the entries devoted to all facets of Douglass's life and work, readers come away with not only a clearer picture of the subject, but a more expansive and nuanced view of the extraordinary age in which he lived. The result is almost startling because the continuities between Douglass's age and our own have not been attenuated. Indeed, this resource successfully conveys the notion that the urgency that motivated Douglass's activism and characterized his influential writings persists to the present day.

Consisting of 100 alphabetically organized essays, entries cover an impressive array...