@book {1378480, title = {The Portable Frederick Douglass}, year = {2016}, publisher = {Penguin Classics}, organization = {Penguin Classics}, abstract = {This compact volume offers a full course on the remarkable, diverse career of Frederick Douglass, letting us hear once more a necessary historical figure whose guiding voice is needed now as urgently as ever. Edited by renowned scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Pulitzer Prize{\textendash}nominated historian John Stauffer,\ The Portable Frederick Douglass\ includes the full range of Douglass{\textquoteright}s works: the complete\ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, as well as extracts from\ My Bondage and MyFreedom\ and\ Life and Times of Frederick Douglass;\ The Heroic Slave, one of the first works of African American fiction; the brilliant speeches that launched his political career and that constitute the greatest oratory of the Civil War era; and his journalism, which ranges from cultural and political critique (including his early support for women{\textquoteright}s equality) to law, history, philosophy, literature, art, and international affairs, including a never-before-published essay on Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L{\textquoteright}Ouverture.}, editor = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and John Stauffer} }