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Frederick Douglass.


Frederick Douglass by William S. McFeely William S. McFeely was a professor of history for decades before his retirement in 1997.

He received his B.A. from Amherst College and Ph.D. from Yale University. He taught for sixteen years at Mount Holyoke College before joining the University of Georgia in 1986.
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New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
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Until someone with the brilliance and sensibilities of, say an Arnold Rampersad (who wrote a comprehensive Langston Hughes biography) comes along, this will have to do. And on the whole it should do nicely. It is, after all, a full-length cradle-to-the-grave biography of the great 19th-century rebel with a serious cause, and the fortitude and oratorical or·a·tor·i·cal  
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 skills to advance it. But buyers should know there is a novelistic nov·el·is·tic  
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Of, relating to, or characteristic of novels.



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 quality to this work and at times you may think you're reading a book written for network mini-series executives.
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Publication:Black Enterprise
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Date:Feb 1, 1992
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