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- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- First published
- 2018
- Length
- ≈ 912 pages
- Reading time
- 23–31 hours
- ISBN
- 1416593888
Reading time assumes 30–40 pages per hour; edition and reading pace affect this estimate. Edition source
What is this book about?
This is the historian David W. Blight’s biography of Frederick Douglass, the African-American abolitionist, writer and orator.
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