"Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom" by David W. Blight, Simon & Schuster. 888 pp. $37.50Frederick Douglass died in splendid isolation, at the top of a lonely hill in Southeast Washington. It juts up precipitously among flat blocks of middle-class rowhouses, as steep and incongruous as a pyramid in the desert. At its summit stands his last home, Cedar Hill, a white-columned antebellum mansion. A heart attack struck him down in its front hall, suddenly on a winter [...]
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