โ Drexler, Michael J.; White, Ed;
๐ Fiction
๐
1972
๐ English
โ 138 KB
๐ 2 views
โฆ LIBER โฆ
Douglass' Women
โ Scribed by Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Publisher
- Atria Books
- Year
- 2002;2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 167 KB
- Edition
- 1st Atria books mass market ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1451612532
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โฆ Synopsis
The critically acclaimed author of Voodoo Dreams delivers an inspired work of historical fiction about the warring passions that drove the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass and two women -- one black, one white -- who loved him.
Douglass' Women reimagines the lives of an American hero, Frederick Douglass, and two women -- his wife and his mistress -- who loved him and lived in his shadow. Anna Douglass, a free woman of color, was Douglass' wife of forty-four years, who bore him five children. Ottilie Assing, a German-Jewish intellectual, provided him the companionship of the mind that he needed. Hurt by Douglass' infidelity, Anna rejected his notion that only literacy freed the mind. For her, familial love rivaled intellectual pursuits. Ottilie was raised by parents who embraced the ideal of free love, but found herself entrapped in an unfulfilling love triangle with America's most famous self-taught slave for nearly three decades.
In her finest novel to...
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