Giant's Causeway: Frederick Douglass's Irish Odyssey and the Making of an American Visionary

by Tom Chaffin

Book Overview

In 1845, seven years after fleeing bondage in Maryland, Frederick Douglass was in his late twenties and already a celebrated lecturer across the northern United States. The recent publication of his groundbreaking Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave had incited threats to his life, however, and to place himself out of harm's way he embarked on a lecture tour of the British Isles, a journey that would span seventeen...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813939852
• ISBN13: 9780813939858
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 2.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher