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Author
Series
Frank L. Klement lectures volume no. 10
Publisher
Marquette University Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
25) Transatlantic
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Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
A tale spanning 150 years and two continents reimagines the peace efforts of democracy champion Frederick Douglass, Senator George Mitchell and World War I airmen John Alcock and Teddy Brown through the experiences of four generations of women from a matriarchal clan.
Newfoundland, 1919. Two aviators, Jack Alcock and Arthur Brown, set course for Ireland as they attempt the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, placing their trust in a modified...
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Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 68
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"From his enslavement to freedom, Frederick Douglass was one of America's most extraordinary champions of liberty and equality. Throughout his long life, Douglass was also a man of profound religious conviction. In this concise and original biography, D. H. Dilbeck offers a provocative interpretation of Douglass's life through the lens of his faith. In an era when the role of religion in public life is as contentious as ever, Dilbeck provides essential...