Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

David W. Blight

912 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History** "Extraordinary...a great American biography" (The New Yorker) of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his...

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informative 91%
inspiring 52%
challenging 50%
reflective 45%
emotional 27%
sad 20%
dark 18%
hopeful 18%
adventurous 4%
tense 4%
funny 2%

Pace

slow 70%
medium 25%
fast 3%

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