Chapter I: Front Matter

AMERICAN CRISIS BIOGRAPHIES

Edited by
Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer, Ph. D.

“=”The American Crisis Biographies“=”

Edited by Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer, Ph.D. With the counsel and advice of Professor John B. McMaster, of the University of Pennsylvania.

Each 12mo, cloth, with frontispiece portrait. Price $1.25 net; by mail, $1.37.

These biographies will constitute a complete and comprehensive history
of the great American sectional struggle in the form of readable and
authoritative biography. The editor has enlisted the co-operation of
many competent writers, as will be noted from the list given below. An
interesting feature of the undertaking is that the series is to be
impartial, Southern writers having been assigned to Southern subjects
and Northern writers to Northern subjects, but all will belong to the
younger generation of writers, thus assuring freedom from any
suspicion of wartime prejudice. The Civil War will not be treated as a
rebellion, but as the great event in the history of our nation, which,
after forty years, it is now clearly recognized to have been.

Now ready:

=Abraham Lincoln.= By ELLIS PAXSON OBERHOLTZER.

=Thomas H. Benton.= By JOSEPH M. ROGERS.

=David G. Farragut.= By JOHN R. SPEARS.

=William T. Sherman.= By EDWARD ROBINS.

=Frederick Douglass.= By BOOKER T. WASHINGTON.

=Judah P. Benjamin.= By PIERCE BUTLER.

=Robert E. Lee.= By PHILIP ALEXANDER BRUCE.

=Jefferson Davis.= By PROF. W. E. DODD.

=Alexander H. Stephens.= By LOUIS PENDLETON.

=John C. Calhoun.= By GAILLARD HUNT.

In preparation:

=Daniel Webster.= By PROF. C. H. VAN TYNE.

=John Quincy Adams.= By BROOKS ADAMS.

=John Brown.= By W. E. BURGHARDT DUBOIS.

=William Lloyd Garrison.= By LINDSAY SWIFT.

=Charles Sumner.= By PROF. GEORGE H. HAYNES.

=William H. Seward.= By EDWARD EVERETT HALE, Jr.

=Stephen A. Douglas.= By PROF. HENRY PARKER WILLIS.

=Thaddeus Stevens.= By PROF. J. A. WOODBURN.

=Andrew Johnson.= By PROF. WALTER L. FLEMING.

=Henry Clay.= By THOMAS H. CLAY.

=Ulysses S. Grant.= By PROF. FRANKLIN S. EDMONDS.

=Edwin M. Stanton.= By EDWIN S. CORWIN.

=“Stonewall” Jackson.= By HENRY ALEXANDER WHITE.

=Jay Cooke.= By ELLIS PAXSON OBERHOLTZER.

AMERICAN CRISIS BIOGRAPHIES

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

by

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Author of “Up from Slavery,” “Working with the Hands,” etc.

PHILADELPHIA
GEORGE W. JACOBS & COMPANY
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Copyright, 1906, by
GEORGE W. JACOBS & COMPANY
_Published, February, 1907_