![]() ![]() ![]() This paper will focus on a specific point in the novel where Blight highlights the experiences of Anna Douglass and Ottilie Assing, and will evaluate how his decision to include their experiences breaks down Douglass’s publicly projected image as a self-made man. Because of this unification, Blight is able to shed light on the experiences of these forgotten individuals and reassign their agency. However, Blight synthesizes the information in Douglass’s three autobiographies and merges these narratives with primary documents from Douglass’s peers and fellow historians’ work to produce an alternative narrative. The absence of information regarding Douglass’s private life in his three autobiographies, countless publications, and speeches, causes the impacts of many key actors within Douglass’s life, such as his wife, Anna, and rumored mistress, Ottilie Assing, to be forgotten. Two significant themes throughout Blight’s novel are the disparities between Douglass’s private and public life due to the lack of information he publicly disclosed about his personal affairs, and his public portrayal as a self-made man. This volume features updated versions of the pedagogical student aids from prior editions, such as the chronology of Frederick Douglass’s life, questions for consideration, illustrations, selected bibliography, and index.Frederick Douglass : David Blight’s Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom recounts the life of Frederick Douglass, a black American who escaped slavery to become one of the most prominent abolitionist figures in American History. These documents now include a letter written by Douglass to William Lloyd Garrison upon his arrival in the British Isles in 1845, just after publication of the Narrative, the first of many such public letters through which the author and orator revealed how his autobiography was received as well as how he was himself undergoing a personal transformation. Part Three features selected reviews of Douglass’s writings along with his own letters and speeches, with substantial explanatory headnotes to aid students. ![]() In this revised edition of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, David Blight has tightened and revised the introduction to reflect new insights gained from recent research, particularly on how much Douglass modeled his writing on Biblical rhetoric and stories and the abolitionist’s appearance as a character in many works of contemporary fiction. This volume features updated versions of the pedagogical student aids from prior editions, such as the chronology of Frederick Douglass’s life, questions for consideration, illustrations, selected bibliography, and index. ![]()
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