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Facing Frederick

The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental American Man

by Tonya Bolden

Narrator Adam Lazarre-White

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Length 3 hours 43 minutes

Language English

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Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) is best known for the telling of his own emancipation. But there is much more to Douglass's story than his time spent enslaved and his famous autobiography. Facing Frederick captures the whole complicated and, at times, perplexing person that he was. Statesman, suffragist, writer, and newspaperman, this book focuses on Douglass the man rather than the historical icon.

Children's Politics & Economy Nonfiction

Tonya Bolden is an award-winning author who has written more than twenty historical books for adults and children, many of which focus on prominent African Americans, including Martin Luther King Jr., George Washington Carver, and Frederick Douglass. Her children's book Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl won the Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award and the James Madison Award, and her work has continued to garner much praise. A graduate of Princeton and Columbia, she grew up in Harlem.

Adam Lazarre-White is an award-winning stage, film, and television actor as well as a screenwriter, director, and producer. Reared on the stage in roles such as Mercutio of Romeo and Juliet and Stanley of A Streetcar Named Desire, he is best known for his film and television work, which includes The Gift, Ocean's Thirteen, Rosewood, and The Young and the Restless. An award-winning audiobook narrator, he enjoys the opportunity to bring colorful characters to life.