Author:Frederick Douglass

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Frederick Douglass
(1818–1895)

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American abolitionist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer; called "The Sage of Anacostia" and "The Lion of Anacostia,"; among the most prominent African Americans of his time and one of the most influential lecturers and authors in American history
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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? (1852)
"The Heroic Slave", pp. 174–239 in Autographs for Freedom, edited by Julia Griffiths (1853) (external scan)
"West India Emancipation" (1857)
"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)
The Future of the Colored Race (1886)

Letters

Letter to Thomas Auld (Sep 2, 1848)

Collections

Frederick Douglass Papers, Published Editions, Islandora Repository
Frederick Douglass Papers, Library of Congress

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)

Works by this author published before January 1, 1924 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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