Children's Nonfiction Social Activists
Frederick Douglass: What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?
- Publisher
- Crabtree Publishing Company
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2020
- Category
- Social Activists, General, Political
- Recommended Age
- 11
- Recommended Grade
- 6
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780778781592
- Publish Date
- Aug 2020
- List Price
- $29.36
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780778781639
- Publish Date
- Aug 2020
- List Price
- $10.95
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Description
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” The prophetic words of abolitionist, writer, and social reformer Frederick Douglass live on in his speeches and books of autobiography. This speech, delivered on July 5, 1852 was an address to the Rochester Ladies‘ Anti-Slavery Society. Douglass grew up enslaved and deprived of rights and liberty and argued that the American values of freedom and liberty for some, but not all, was an injustice to all humans.
About the author
Rebecca Sjonger is the author of twenty-five non-fiction books for children and young adults, including Life in the Far North and The Life Cylce of a Bat, as well as other "Resource Links of the Year" selections. She lives in Huntsville, Ontario.
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