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Title: Cardboard figures...
Review: Frederick Douglass's love life was quite complicated. This account moves back and forth between his black wife and his white mistress. Anna Murray is Douglass's wife, a free Maryland woman of color who helps him escape the South. In exchange, his marries her. However, as Douglass' fame grows, he meets a German woman named Ottilie Assing. This book potrays Frederick as a scum-bag who just wanted women to be submissive to him. Anna is whiny and annoying, even as we DO feel a bit bad for her being left all alone (usually pregnant) while Frederick is away, many times with Ottilie. Ottilie is a stuck-up snob, so it's hard to care about her. I couldn't really connect with eithier woman. Nice use of putting quotes at the beginning of each chapter, but that couldn't save the book.
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