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Frederick Douglass
Books
Douglass, Frederick. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.
Hartford, Conn.: Park Publishing Co., 1881. Various editions are available. See below for online texts.
The final autobiography of Frederick Douglass.
Douglass, Frederick. My Bondage and My Freedom.
New York ; Auburn [NY]: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855. Various editions are available. See below for online texts.
Douglass wrote this item ten years after Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass to provide
additional information about his life and slavery.
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself
Boston : Anti-Slavery Office, 1845. Various editions are available. See below for online texts.
The first written work by Douglass about his life as a slave.
McFeely, William S. Frederick Douglass.
New York : Norton, 1991.
Freudian interpretations by the authors are a bit overblown. Despite this flaw, the book is a good secondary source about Douglass.
Frederick Douglass. contains an excellent bibliography listing primary and secondary sources.
Frederick Douglass’s Newspapers 1847-1863
Douglass’ Monthly
(Rochester, NY) 1859-1863.
Frederick Douglass’ Paper
(Rochester, NY) 1851-1860.
Douglass changed the North Star to this name in 1851.
North Star
(Rochester, NY) 1847-51.
The first paper started by Douglass to give himself a separate voice from the Garrisonians.
Websites
Addresses of the Hon. W. D. Kelley, Miss Anna E. Dickinson, and Mr. Frederick Douglass, at a mass meeting ...
This digitized pamphlet contains a 6 July 1863 Philadelphia speech by Douglass promoting the enlistment of black troops in
what he viewed as a fight against slavery. This resource is part of the Library of Congress
From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection.
CivilWar@Smithsonian
The CivilWar@Smithsonian website highlights Smithsonian items pertaining to
Civil War history. This website briefly covers Douglass’s involvement in the abolition
movement. Below are links to two pieces of art with Douglass as the subject:
The Claims of the Negro, Ethnologically Considered . . .
Full text of a speech given 12 July 1854 at Western Reserve College. This resource is part of the Library of Congress
From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection.
Documenting the American South
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries maintains this website containing resources
pertaining to the South. Included in this collection are Frederick Douglass materials. The site contains a brief
biography and
Selected Readings Related to Frederick Douglass. Both pages lead to online texts written by Douglass and a few
full text biographies written in the late 19th Century.
The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
This website contains finding aids for the Frederick Douglas Papers. Some items can be viewed online. A
Family Tree and
Timeline may also be viewed.
The In His Own Words page contains links to
online texts of The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave,
My Bondage and My Freedom,
and The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.
The Frederick Douglass Papers Project
The Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis History Department is responsible for this
web site containing resources for locating Frederick Douglass documents. Portions of the
site are still under construction. However, the site does contain a
Timeline of his life. This site also provides a Bibliography,
Web Resources, the
Location of Original Douglass Documents, and a listing of
Letters Located by the Project, which lists some correspondences between Douglass and others
between the years 1841-1852.
Free church alliance with manstealers. Send back the money. Great anti-slavery meeting in the City Hall, Glasgow . . .
This digitized pamphlet contains a 1846 speech given by Douglass in Scotland blasting the Free Church of Scotland for their acceptance of
funds from American slaveholders. This resource is another item available from the Library of Congress
From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection.
Speeches by Frederick Douglas
A portal to Douglass’s speeches available online. The site is authored by
Lucia Knoles, Professor of English at Assumption College, Worcester, Massachusetts. Please pay heed to her
advice on reading Frederick Douglass’s speeches listed on the web.
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