The Speeches of Frederick Douglass

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The Speeches of Frederick Douglass is written by Frederick Douglass and published by Yale University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0300240694 (ISBN 10) and 9780300240696 (ISBN 13).

A collection of twenty of Frederick Douglass’s most important orations This volume brings together twenty of Frederick Douglass’s most historically significant speeches on a range of issues, including slavery, abolitionism, civil rights, sectionalism, temperance, women’s rights, economic development, and immigration. Douglass’s oratory is accompanied by speeches that he considered influential, his thoughts on giving public lectures and the skills necessary to succeed in that endeavor, commentary by his contemporaries on his performances, and modern-day assessments of Douglass’s effectiveness as a public speaker and advocate.