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Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) led an astounding life.

Letter to His Old Master & Speech Extracts includes “Letter to His Old Master,” “Nature of Slavery, “Inhumanity of Slavery,” “What to the Slave is the 4th of July?,” “The Internal Slave Trade,” “The Slavery Party,” and “The Anti-Slavery Movement.”