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starring: Biography See Larger Image List Price: $24.95 Our Price: $22.49 You Save: $2.46 (10%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $7.15 Third Party New Price: $5.27 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 9780767080576 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC ISBN: 0767080572 Label: A&E Home Video Manufacturer: A&E Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: A&E Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: April 26, 2005 Running Time: 50 minutes Sales Rank: 19063 Studio: A&E Home Video Related Items: Underground Railroad (History Channel) The American Experience - Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind Biography - Thurgood Marshall: Justice for All Biography: Benjamin Franklin - Citizen of the World Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery see more Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Frederick Douglass, the self-taught orator, writer, and abolitionist who was born a slave in the South and made a brave escape to the North, was in the words of one historian: 'A major figure in the coming of the Civil War, and the way the Civil War was fought. I think you can say he was the conscience of the nation.' Douglass campaigned Lincoln to free the slaves and allow African Americans to serve in the nation's army. An early proponent of women's rights, he campaigned for equal rights for all people and he served as America's first African American statesman when he was appointed diplomat to Haiti. He continued his public-speaking engagements up to his death in 1895 at the age of 78. The comments and analyses of numerous historians and excerpts from the writings and speeches of Douglass present a man driven by a dream, and who worked to make that dream a reality to the end of his days. With no contemporaries alive to comment on the private man, and only brief autobiographical excerpts included from his own works, this portrait tends to simplify the controversies of his life (his second marriage to a white woman rocked even the 'liberal' North) and deify the man, but few Americans deserve such tribute more than Frederick Douglass. --Sean Axmaker Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Courage and Conscience This accessible overview of Douglass' turbulent life from slavery and persecution to crusading newspaperman and presidential adviser should inform and inspire viewers. This biography recreates the prejudiced atmosphere where the myth of racial inferiority reigned in the South to justify slavery and in the North to rationalize indifference to human suffering. Douglass' fiery speeches still speak to our highest aspirations as Americans united by the creed that "all men (and women) are created equal." Rating: - To be Real This story being a part of history goes without challenge in my mind because, the reports as recorded cannot change what was the way of living then.This is the story of a challenged man , challenged not only by the society that he was a part of but also his own personal being. A must for history enthusiasts. Browse for similar items by category: African American Cinema - Genres - DVD - Video - General Documentary - Genres - DVD - Video - General Documentary - Genres - DVD - Video - African American Heritage Documentary - Genres - DVD - Video - Biography Television - Genres - DVD - Video - General