Product Details
- Starring: Biography
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- Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
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- Binding: VHS Tape
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- EAN: 9780767001205
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- Format: Black & White, Color, NTSC
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- ISBN: 0767001206
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- Label: A&E Home Video
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- Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Product Group: Video
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- Publisher: A&E Home Video
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- Release Date: 1997-11-18
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- Studio: A&E Home Video
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- Title: Biography - Frederick Douglass
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- UPC: 733961141931
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Product Description: Frederick Douglass, the self-taught orator, writer, and abolitionist who was born a slave in the South and made a brave escape to the North, was in the words of one historian: "A major figure in the coming of the Civil War, and the way the Civil War was fought. I think you can say he was the conscience of the nation." Douglass campaigned Lincoln to free the slaves and allow African Americans to serve in the nation's army. An early proponent of women's rights, he campaigned for equal rights for all people and he served as America's first African American statesman when he was appointed diplomat to Haiti. He continued his public-speaking engagements up to his death in 1895 at the age of 78. The comments and analyses of numerous historians and excerpts from the writings and speeches of Douglass present a man driven by a dream, and who worked to make that dream a reality to the end of his days. With no contemporaries alive to comment on the private man, and only brief autobiographical excerpts included from his own works, this portrait tends to simplify the controversies of his life (his second marriage to a white woman rocked even the "liberal" North) and deify the man, but few Americans deserve such tribute more than Frederick Douglass. --Sean Axmaker
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