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This biography; written by Booker T. Washington; one of most important post-Civil War African-American thinkers; is an account of the life and career of Frederick Douglass. The biographical account is set within a nation struggling to solve one of the most excruciating social problems that any modern people faced―slavery. This volume encompasses the experiences of Frederick Douglass as a slave and then as a public man; through the anti-slavery movement; the Civil War; and the period of reconstruction.Douglass's fame as a speaker was secure. His position as the champion of an oppressed race was; in his own generation; as picturesque as it was unique. From the blight of slavery; Douglass emerged; passed through; and triumphed over the lingering prejudice that he encountered as a freeman. Like the author of his biography; Douglass seized his place in history. His life is an epic; one that finds few to equal it in the realms of either romance or reality. Douglass was a role model to the author; and his early narrative was a guide to black and white people alike.Among the subjects covered are the Genesis of the Anti-Slavery Agitation; the Fugitive Slave Law; the Underground Railway; the American Colonization Society; the Conflict in Kansas for Free Soil; the John Brown Raid; the Civil War; the Enlistment of Colored Troops; and Reconstruction.