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Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass rose to be one of the country's foremost intellectuals - a statesman, author, lecturer, and scholar who helped lead the fight against slavery and racial oppression. Unlike other leading abolitionists, however, Douglass embraced the united states Constitution, insisting that it was an essentially anti-slavery document and that its warranties for individual protection under the law belonged to all or any Americans, of whatever contest. Douglass spoke in his most popular lecture, "Self-Made Men", of people who go up through their own work and devotion rather than circumstances of privilege. "If they have traveled very good, they have got made the road on which they have got travelled. If they have ascended high, they have got built their own ladder." Within this fast-paced biography, attorney and author Timothy Sandefur examines the life and ideas of the country's foremost "self-made man" - from his horrific experience in slavery and his heroic break free to his eloquent needs for equal treatment by the government and his later job as statesman and intellectual. Throughout it all Douglass was guided by his perception in the sanctity of the average person. "There is absolutely no Negro problem", Douglass insisted. "60 whether the American people have honesty enough, devotion enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own Constitution." Led by his dream of an America where all people would be absolve to make the the majority of themselves without hindrance, Douglass eventually transformed the United States. As the country pauses to remember Douglass on his bicentennial, Frederick Douglass: Self-Made Man gives us an insightful view into the head of one of America's greatest thinkers.
