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Root, Damon,

A glorious liberty : Frederick Douglass and the fight for an antislavery constitution / Damon Root. - Lincoln : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (197 pages)

Description based on print version of record.

Includes bibliographies and index.

1. "A Faithful Disciple of William Lloyd Garrison" -- 2. "An Anti-slavery Instrument" -- 3. "This Hell-Black Judgment of the Supreme Court" -- 4. "Men of Color, to Arms!" -- 5. "One Nation, One Country, One Citizenship" -- Epilogue.

In this timely and provocative book, Damon Root reveals how Frederick Douglass's fight for an antislavery Constitution helped to shape the course of American history in the nineteenth century and beyond.



ISBN: 9781640123830

Subjects--Personal Names:
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.

Subjects--Corporate Names:
United States -- 13th Amendment. Constitution
United States -- 14th Amendment. Constitution
United States -- 15th Amendment. Constitution

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Antislavery movements--History--United States--19th century.
African American abolitionists.
Abolitionists--United States.
Constitutional history--United States.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic Books.

LC Class. No.: E449 / .G567 2020