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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Contents

  • The Text of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself
  • Preface by William Lloyd Garrison
  • Letter from Wendell Phillips
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas
  • Contexts
  • Margaret Fuller, [Review of the Narrative](New York Tribune, June 10, 1845)
  • Anonymous, [Review of the Narrative](Spectator, November 29, 1845)
  • A.C.C. Thompson, [Letter from a Former Slaveholder](Liberator, February 27, 1846)
  • Frederick Douglass, [Reply to Thompson’s Letter](Liberator, February 27, 1846)
    – Preface to the Second Dublin Edition of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas (1846)
  • Douglas on His Mother and His Father (1845,1855,1892)
  • Douglas on His Escape from Slavery (1882)
    – I Am Here To Spread Light on American Slavery (October 14, 1845)
  • – What To the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (July 5, 1852)
  • James Monroe Gregory, From Frederick Douglass, the Orator, 1893)
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, [Diary Entry on Douglass’s Death](February 21, 1895)
  • Criticism
  • William S. McFeely [The Writing of the Narrative]
  • Peter Ripley, The Autobiographical Writings of Frederick Douglass
  • Robert B. Stept, Narration, Authentication, and Authorial Control in Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of 1845
  • William L. Andrews, [Frederick Douglass and the American Jeremiad]
  • Houston A. Baker, Jr., [The Economics of Douglass’s Narrative]
  • Deborah E. McDowell, In the First Place: Making Frederick Douglass and the Afro-American Narrative Tradition