A Picture Book of Frederick Douglass

Written by David Adler
Illustrated by Samuel Byrd

Grade:

2-4

ISBN-13:

Publisher:

Holiday (1993)

A detailed recounting of the astonishing life of Frederick Douglass. Largely self-taught, enslaved Frederick found encouragement in the Bible and did not accept enslavement as his lot for life. He witnessed and endured its horrors firsthand (flogging of his aunt and himself), escaped to the north, wrote with passion of his experience, became the first African-American publisher and most influential spokesmen for civil rights in the antebellum period. The book covers Douglass's work in the Civil War to assemble a black regiment and his lifelong support for women's rights.