THE ONLY HISTORICAL NOVEL IN PRINT BASED ON FREDERICK DOUGLASS
For immediate release 08 Aug 2023
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Based on the life of Frederick Douglass, the most prominent African American of the 19th Century, Sidney Morrison has created a mesmerizing and important historical novel richly detailing the Civil War Era and the Institution of Slavery that Douglass was instrumental in ending.
Frederick Douglass escapes enslavement in Maryland and becomes a prominent abolitionist leader; one of the nation’s most skilled orators; and publisher of an antislavery newspaper called The North Star. He lives with...Forward