Publisher's Synopsis
"Benjamin Quarles researches the life of Frederick Douglass and explores his three autobiographies to examine Douglass's impact on the anti-slavery movement, the Civil War, Reconstruction, women's suffrage, and the Republican Party during its first forty years. Quarles delves into Douglass's personal and family life, including his then-controversial second marriage to Helen Pitts. This book is a vivid account of the man and the time in which he lived"--.
