RaveCompulsive Reader\"Any biography of Frederick Douglass will find its toughest competition coming from Douglass himself. His passionate memoirs vividly bring to life the anguish of slavery and testify to Douglass’s humanity and intelligence. Yet, in the bicentennial year of Frederick Douglass’s birth, preeminent Douglass scholar David W. Blight rose to the challenge with the release of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, likely to become the definitive biography of one of America’s most important public figures ... David Blight’s book delivers the new Frederick Douglass standard-bearer for years to come.\
