Frederick Douglass

1818–1895

Frederick Douglass was an American abolitionist, writer and orator who escaped slavery and became one of the nineteenth century’s most influential advocates of emancipation and equal citizenship. His autobiographies exposed slavery, and during the Civil War he pressed Abraham Lincoln to recruit Black soldiers and make freedom a central war aim.

In James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird, Onion later encounters Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman as Brown searches for support for an armed attack on slavery. George MacDonald Fraser’s Flash for Freedom! places Frederick Douglass within a narrative shaped by social change and the pressures of ordinary life, exploration, travel and cultural encounter, and political ambition and government. Other novels featuring Frederick Douglass include George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman and the Angel of the Lord.

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The Flashman Papers in Order

by George MacDonald Fraser 12 books 4.2

The Flashman Papers present the supposed memoirs of Sir Harry Paget Flashman, the bully expelled from Rugby School in Tom Brown’s School Days who becomes a decorated Victorian soldier despite being a coward, liar, opportunist and sexual predator. George MacDonald Fraser places this fictional witness inside documented nineteenth-century…

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