Frederick Douglass for Kids

His Life and Times, with 21 Activities

Nancy I. Sanders

• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN:
  9781613743577
• Edition: 1

Few Americans have had as much impact on this nation as Frederick Douglass. Born on a plantation, he later escaped slavery and helped others to freedom via the Underground Railroad. In time he became a bestselling author, an outspoken newspaper editor, a brilliant orator, a tireless abolitionist, and a brave civil rights leader. He was famous on both sides of the Atlantic in the years leading up to the Civil War, and when war broke out, Abraham Lincoln invited him to the White House for counsel and advice.             Frederick Douglass for Kids follows the footsteps of this American hero, from his birth into slavery to his becoming a friend and confidant of presidents and the leading African American of his day. And to better appreciate Frederick Douglass and his times, readers will form a debating club, cook a meal similar to the one Douglass shared with John Brown, make a civil war haversack, participate in a microlending program, and more. This valuable resource also includes a time line of significant events, a list of historic sites to visit or explore online, and Web resources for further study.   Nancy I. Sanders is the author of many books, including America's Black Founders and A Kid's Guide to African American History. She lives in Chino, California.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Book Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Acknowledgment
• Contents
• Time Line
• 1: “Four Score and Seven Years Ago …
• 2: “Our Fathers Brought Forth on this Continent …”
• 3: “a New Nation Conceived in Liberty
• 4: “Dedicated to the Proposition That All Men Are Created Equal …”
• 5: “Now We Are Engaged in a Great Civil War …”
• 6: “That this Nation, Under God, Shall Have a New Birth of Freedom …”
• 7: “and That Government of the People, by the People, for the People, Shall Not Perish From the Earth”
• Afterword
• Resources
• Index