Free at Last. The Life of Frederick Douglass.

A noted Harlem Renaissance author’s biography of Frederick Douglass

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Bontemps’ biography of this extraordinary African American author, orator, and statesman, born a slave, self-educated, author of three autobiographies and a friend of Abraham Lincoln. Bontemps sketch is from birth until Douglass’s later years when he bought the home of Robert E. Lee and took a white woman as a wife, concerning some of his friends.

“Arna Bontemps has drawn a vivid portrait of this unique champion of the freedom of his people.” [Publishers] Somewhat scarce book by Louisiana-native Bontemps, Harlem Renaissance author, poet, editor, and curator.

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