Author:Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass
(1818–1895)

Frederick Douglass

Works

Autobiographies

• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)
• My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)
• Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

  Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, first edition (1881)

  Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, reprinted (1882) (transcription project)

  Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, revised edition (1892) (transcription project)

Essays and Orations

• "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" (July 5, 1852)
• "The Heroic Slave", pp. 174–239 in Autographs for Freedom, edited by Julia Griffiths (1853) (external scan)
• "The Nature, Character, and History of the Anti-slavery Movement", (1855)
• "West India Emancipation" (1857)
• The American Constitution and the Slave (March 26, 1860)
• "Reconstruction" in The Atlantic Monthly, 18 (110) (December, 1866).
• "An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage" in The Atlantic Monthly, 19 (111) (January, 1867)
• Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln (1876)
• My Escape from Slavery (1881)
• The Color Line (1881)
• Address on the Twenty-First Anniversary of Emancipation in the District of Columbia (1883)
• The Soul of the Nation (1885)
• The Future of the Colored Race (1886)
• "Why is the Negro Lynched?" (1894) (transcription project)

Letters

• Letter to Thomas Auld (Sep 8, 1848)

Collections

• Frederick Douglass Papers, Published Editions, Islandora Repository
• Frederick Douglass Papers, Library of Congress
• Frederick Douglass — Speeches, Debates, and Interviews Vol 1 (1841-1846) ed. by John W. Blassingame (transcription project)

As editor

• The North Star

Works about Douglass

Biographies

• Frederick Douglass, The Colored Orator by Frederic May Holland (1891)

  First edition (1891) (external scan)

  Revised edition (1895) (external scan)

• Frederick Douglass by Charles W. Chesnutt (1899)
• Frederick Douglass by Booker T. Washington (1907), in the series American Crisis Biographies. (external scan)

Encyclopedia articles

• "Douglass, Frederick," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "Douglass, Frederick," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1892)
• "Douglass, Frederick," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Douglass, Frederick," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Poetry

• "Frederick Douglass" by Paul Laurence Dunbar (poem)