The Life of Frederick Douglass

In the succeeding chapters, an effort has been made to present an account of the life of Frederick Douglass as a slave and as a public man during the most eventful years of the anti-slavery movement, the Civil War, the period of reconstruction, and the after years of comparative freedom from sectional agitation over the ＂Negro problem.＂ To bring this study within the plan and purposes of this Series of Biographies, such subjects as ＂The Genesis of the Anti-Slavery Agitation,＂ ＂The Fugitive Slave Law,＂ ＂The Underground Railway,＂ ＂The American Colonization Society,＂ ＂The Conflict in Kansas for Free Soil,＂ ＂The John Brown Raid,＂ ＂The Civil War,＂ ＂The Enlistment of Colored Troops,＂ and ＂Reconstruction,＂ have been given more space than they have received in earlier biographies.