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Title A glorious liberty : Frederick Douglass and the fight for an antislavery constitution

Author

Root, Damon, author.

Publisher

Lincoln, Nebraska : Potomac Books [2020]

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Copies

Library	Call Number	Note	Status
Holt-Non-Fiction	973.8092 Root		AVAILABLE
Lansing-2nd Floor-Non-Fiction	973.8092 Root		AVAILABLE
Okemos-Non-Fiction	973.8092 Root		AVAILABLE
Webberville-Non-Fiction	973.8092 Root		AVAILABLE

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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Frederick Douglass's Constitution -- "A Faithful Disciple of William Lloyd Garrison" -- "An Anti-Slavery Instrument" -- "This Hell-Black Judgment of the Supreme Court" -- "Men of Color, to Arms!" -- "One Nation, One Country, One Citizenship" -- A Legacy of Liberty.
Summary	"A review of Douglass's ideas about free labor and constitutional liberty in order to understand the origins and meanings of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, each of which grew out of the anti-slavery movement that Douglass did so much to shape"--Provided by publisher.
Other Titles	Frederick Douglass and the fight for an anti-slavery constitution
Description	186 pages cm
ISBN	9781640122352
	1640122354
Subjects	Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
	United States. Constitution. 13th Amendment.
	United States. Constitution. 14th Amendment.
	United States. Constitution. 15th Amendment.
	Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	African American abolitionists.
	Abolitionists -- United States.
	Constitutional history -- United States.

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