title: Frederick Douglass: In His Own Words
author:  Frederick Douglass 
description: Extracts from writings and speeches by the 19th-century abolitionist are paired with Alcorn's dramatic linocuts. (Jan.) Melba Patillo Beals, who as a teenager in 1957 became a key player in a critical civil rights struggle, has abridged for young readers her affecting adult title Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High School (Pocket/Archway, paper $3.99, ages 11-up ISBN 0-671-89900-7). The original edition was reviewed in Nonfiction Forecasts, March 28, 1994. (Feb.). African American children star in one new and one reissued title added to HarperFestival's Let's Read Aloud series: Eloise Greenfield's Honey, I Love, originally published in 1978, receives homey new illustrations by Jan Spivey Gilchrist, who also provides the artwork for Greenfield's bucolic On My Horse ($7.95 each, ages 2-5, 20p, ISBN 0-694-00579-7; -00583-5, Jan.).<br />Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage  
    
  
  
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  # An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage
  
  
  ### Frederick Douglass
  
  
  
  
  
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  A VERY limited statement of the argument for impartial suffrage, and for
  including the negro in the body politic,
  
  
  would require more space than can be reasonably asked here. It is supported by
  reasons as broad as the
  
  
  nature of man, and as numerous as the wants of society. Man is the only
  government-making animal in the
  
  
  world. His right to a participation in the production and operation of
  government is an inference from his nature,
  
  
  as direct and self-evident as is his right to acquire property or education.
  It is no less a crime against the
  
  
  manhood of a man, to declare that he shall not share in the making and
  directing of the government under
  
  
  which he