Frederick Douglass

  • Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
    By David W. Blight

    Prophet of Freedom David W. Blight ... Wells-Barnett, Crusade for Justice, 87–105; Schechter, Ida B. Wells-Barnett,91–94. Robert W. Rydell, ed., The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World's Columbian Exposition, ...

  • Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings
    By Yuval Taylor, Philip S. Foner

    One of the greatest African American leaders and one of the most brilliant minds of his time, Frederick Douglass spoke and wrote with unsurpassed eloquence on almost all the major issues confronting the American people during his ...

  • Frederick Douglass: A Life in Documents
    By Frederick Douglass

    This volume gathers and interprets valuable selections from a variety of Douglass’s writings, including speeches, editorials, correspondence, and autobiographies.

  • Frederick Douglass: Speeches and Writings (LOA #358)
    By Frederick Douglass

    Assembled by David W. Blight, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, this volume, a companion to Library of America's edition of Douglass's Autobiographies, gathers all of Douglass's most ...

  • Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies
    By Frederick Douglass

    During his lifetime he wrote several books, this edition collects the most important Frederick Douglass autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom, Life and Times of Frederick ...

  • Frederick Douglass: 100 Quotes on Bondage, Perseverance, and Redemption
    By Frederick Douglass

    "Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.

  • Frederick Douglass: A Biography
    By Booker T. Washington

    This volume encompasses the experiences of Frederick Douglass as a slave and then as a public man, through the anti-slavery movement, the Civil War, and the period of reconstruction. Douglass's fame as a speaker was secure.

  • Frederick Douglass: The Last Day of Slavery
    By William Miller

    Traces the life of the Black abolitionist, from his early years as a slave, and his promise that he would escape, and all slaves would be free

  • Frederick Douglass
    By Marianne Ruuth

    The boy Frederick saw his mother's sister , his aunt Hester , a beautiful girl in her teens , being whipped brutally several times . The louder she screamed , the harder the master whipped . “ And where the blood ran fastest , there he ...

  • Frederick Douglass: Freedom's Voice, 1818-1845
    By Gregory P. Lampe

    This work in the MSU Press Rhetoric and Public Affairs Series chronicles Frederick Douglass's preparation for a career in oratory, his emergence as an abolitionist lecturer in 1841, and his development and activities as a public speaker and ...

  • Frederick Douglass: A Biography
    By C. James Trotman Ph.D.

    A Biography C. James Trotman Ph.D. FREDERICK DOUGLASS Recent Titles in Greenwood Biographies Justin Timberlake: A Biography Kimberly.

  • Frederick Douglass: Abolitionist, Author, Editor, and Diplomat
    By Jim Whiting

    Each volume in this series tells the life story of a famous biracial American achiever- entertainer, athlete, politician, or historical figure.

  • Frederick Douglass
    By William S. McFeely

    18, 1846, Letters of Garrison, 3:378–79. 151 “rapturously received”: Ibid., 379. 151 “more delighted”: William Lloyd Garrison to Helen Benson Garrison, Aug. 18, 1846, ibid., 377. 151 “smitten him”: William Lloyd Garrison to Edmund ...

  • Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings
    By Frederick Douglass

    [ I : 54 ] TO WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON Lynn , November 8th , 1842 Dear Friend Garrison : The date of this letter ... On Sunday , we held three meetings in the new town hall , at the usual meeting hours , morning , afternoon , and evening ...

  • Frederick Douglass: Slave, Writer, Abolitionist
    By Brenda Haugen

    A biography profiling the life of Frederick Douglass, his escape from slavery, his career as an author and orator, and his quest for justice. Includes source notes and timeline.

  • Frederick Douglass
    By Joan Stoltman

    Frederick Douglass is a familiar name to many students, but the incredible impact he left on U.S. history is sometimes lost amid the other facts and faces in social studies textbooks.

  • Frederick Douglass: Oratory from Slavery
    By David B. Chesebrough

    Washington , DC : Associated Publishers , Inc. , 1925 . Zarefsky , David . Public Speaking : Strategies for Sucess . Boston : Allyn and Bacon , 1996 . Articles Andrews , William L. " Frederick Douglass , Preacher Bibliography 169.

  • Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
    By David W. Blight

    The New York and Philadelphia resolutions are in Herbert Aptheker, ed., A Documentary History of the Negro People in ... 119–32, 191–95; Guelzo, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, 144; Burlingame, Lincoln, 384; David Herbert Donald, ...

  • Frederick Douglass: Fugitive Slave and Abolitionist
    By Sue Vander Hook

    Lloyd Politicians Edward Lloyd V , owner of the Wye House , was governor of Maryland from 1809 to 1811. Between 1819 and 1826 , when Douglass lived on the plantation , Lloyd was a U.S. senator . His grandson , Henry Lloyd , later became ...

  • Frederick Douglass: Abolitionist and Fighter for Equality
    By Jason Porterfield

    This engaging book for young readers follows the major events in Douglass's life, from his birth in slavery and escape to his involvement in the abolitionist movement and post, Civil War activist causes.