Related Resources

Biography

• Blight, David W. Frederick Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989. LC Call Number: E449 .D75 B55 1989
• Huggins, Nathan Irvin. Slave and Citizen: The Life of Frederick Douglass. Edited by Oscar Handlin. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980. LC Call Number: E449 .D75 H83
• Martin, Waldo E. The Mind of Frederick Douglass. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984. LC Call Number: E449 .D75 M37 1984
• McFeely, William S. Frederick Douglass. New York: Norton, 1991. LC Call Number: E449 .D75 M374 1991
• Preston, Dickson J. Young Frederick Douglass: The Maryland Years. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980. LC Call Number: E449 .D75 P74
• Quarles, Benjamin. Frederick Douglass. Washington, D.C.: Associated Publishers, 1948. LC Call Number: E449 .D74
• Sundquist, Eric J., ed. Frederick Douglass: New Literary and Historical Essays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. LC Call Number: E449 .D75 F74 1990
• Washington, Booker T. Frederick Douglass. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Company, 1906. LC Call Number: E449 .D75 W37

Library of Congress Resources

Electronic

• Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress.
  memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/malhome.html
• The African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920.
  memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ohshtml/aaeohome.html
• African American Odyssey.
  memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/aohome.html
• African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907.
  memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html
• African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920.
  memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/rpbhtml/aasmhome.html
• America's Library: Amazing Americans: Frederick Douglass
  http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/douglass
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938.
  memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html
• Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present. www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/
• The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, ca. 1600-1925. memory.loc.gov/ammem/lhcbhtml.lhcbhome.html
• The Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925. Washington, D.C.: memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/ncuhtml/csbchome.html
• From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909.
  memory.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/aapchome.html
• The Nineteenth Century in Print.
  memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/moahtml/mnchome.html
• "We'll Sing To Abe Our Song!": Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War from the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana.
  www.loc.gov/collection/alfred-whital-stern-lincolniana/about-this-collection/
• Words and Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First 100 Years. Washington, D.C.: American Memory, Library of Congress, 1998.
  memory.loc.gov/ammem/mcchtml/corhome.html

External Resources

Electronic

• American Visionaries; Frederick Douglass, Online exhibit, Washington, D.C.; National Park Service, 2005.
  http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/douglass/
• Documenting the American South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Academic Affairs Library, 1998.
  http://docsouth.unc.edu/ External
• Frederick Douglass National Historic Site. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 2001.
  http://www.nps.gov/frdo/index.htm
• Frederick Douglass Papers at Indiana University/Purdue University. Indianapolis: The Trustees of Indiana University, 2000.
  http://www.iupui.edu/~douglass/ External
• University of Virginia Electronic Text Center: Frederick Douglass E-Texts. Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1992- . Author Index / Douglass, Frederick.
  http://etext.virginia.edu/subjects/African-American.html External

Other Resources

Book

• Blassingame, John W., et al., eds. The Frederick Douglass Papers. Series One: Speeches, Debates, and Interviews. 5 vols. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979-92. LC Call Number: E449 .D733
• -----. The Frederick Douglass Papers. Series Two: Autobiographical Writings. 1 vol. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999- . LC Call Number: E449 .D734 1999
• Douglass, Frederick. Autobiographies: Frederick Douglass. Notes by Henry Louis Gates Jr. New York: The Library of America, 1994. LC Call Number: E449 .D749 1994b
• -----. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Written by Himself. Hartford, Conn.: Park Pub. Co., 1881. Reprint, Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel Press, 1983. LC Call Number: E449 .D738 1983
• -----. My Bondage and My Freedom. With a new introduction by Philip S. Foner. New York: Dover Publications, 1969. LC Call Number: E449 .D738 1969
• -----. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism. Edited by William L. Andrews and William S. McFeely. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1996. LC Call Number: E449 .D75 D68 1996
• -----, ed. Douglass' Monthly. January 1859-August 1863.
• -----, ed. Frederick Douglass' Paper. 1851-60.
• -----, ed. New National Era. 1870-74.
• -----, ed. The North Star. 1847-51.
Foner, Philip S., ed. The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass. New York: International Publishers, 1950. LC Call Number: E449. D736
• Bennett, Evelyn. Frederick Douglass and the War against Slavery. Brookfield, Conn.: The Millbrook Press, 1993. LC Call Number: E449 .D75 B45 1993
• Keenan, Sheila. Frederick Douglass: Portrait of a Freedom Fighter. New York: Scholastic Inc., 1995. LC Call Number: E449 .D75
• McCurdy, Michael, ed. Escape from Slavery: The Boyhood of Frederick Douglass in His Own Words. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. LC Call Number: E449 .D749 1994
• McKissack, Patricia, and Fredrick McKissack. Frederick Douglass: The Black Lion. Chicago: Childrens Press, 1987. LC Call Number: E449 .D75 M38 1987

Misc.

Index of Names in General Correspondence (PDF, 1.3 Mb)