![]() Washington-esque espousal of Black self-improvement, his rebuke of women's suffragists he'd earlier allied with) became more conventional and less challenging. Douglass's ambition provided him with the sheer will to overcome his circumstances and achieve much, but also led him, later in life, to become a more establishment figure whose views (a Booker T. McFeely is quite effective and erudite showing Douglass's evolution, from Garrisonian pacifism to an abolition-at-any-cost attitude that alienated some of his early allies his fraught relationship with Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party, spurring them to harsher action his efforts to push for Reconstruction and continued activism. Even in bondage, Douglass valued learning and erudition, which served him brilliantly upon his escape he became a ferociously effective orator and activist calling for slavery's end. McFeely shows Douglass, from his earliest days as the enslaved Frederick Bailey, as a man of great ambition for self-improvement and self-advancement. ![]() ![]() William McFeely's Frederick Douglass is a sturdy, generally reliable biography of the ex-slave, abolitionist and Civil Rights activist of 19th Century America. ![]()
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