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FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1817–1895)
From: Shapers of the Great Debate on the Civil War

MASTER AND SLAVE
From: From Sundown to Sunup

FREDERICK DOUGLASS ON THE FUTURE OF THE NEGRO PEOPLE IN THE SLAVE STATES (1862)
From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights

1 : THE YEARS OF SLAVERY (1818–1837)
From: Frederick Douglass

The Ordeal of Harpers Ferry and the Trial of John Brown: Madman or Martyr?
From: Famous American Crimes and Trials

2 : THE PREWAR YEARS OF FREEDOM (1838–1861)
From: Frederick Douglass

FREDERICK DOUGLASS ON “THE NEGRO PROBLEM” (1890)
From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights

29.: Frederick Douglass, Excerpt from the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)
From: 100 Key Documents in American Democracy

3 : The Search for a Moses: The Effect of Leadership
From: The Journey to the Promised Land

3 : THE WAR YEARS (1861–1865)
From: Frederick Douglass

4 : The Postwar Years (1865–1895)
From: Frederick Douglass

41.: Frederick Douglass, Excerpt from “Address on the Anniversary of the Emancipation of Slaves in the District of Columbia” (1888)
From: 100 Key Documents in American Democracy

5 : RHETORICAL TECHNIQUES
From: Frederick Douglass

5 : The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass and Booker T.Washington
From: A Journey into the Philosophy of Alain Locke

6 : SPEECHES
From: Frederick Douglass

BIBLIOGRAPHY
From: Frederick Douglass

Biographies:
From: The American Civil War

Biographies: Personalities of the Abolitionist Movement
From: The Abolitionist Movement

CHAPTER THREE : The Road to War
From: Student Almanac of African American History

CHAPTER XIII. : CONVENTIONS AT NANTUCKET AND NEW BEDFORD— FREDERICK DOUGLASS DISCOVERED—LETTER FROM MR. GARRISON—MEETINGS AND MOB DEMONSTRATIONS IN SALEM—OPERATIONS IN MAINE—MOBS IN PORTLAND AND HARWICH.
From: Acts of the Anti-Slavery Apostles

DOUGLAS, FREDERICK (1817–1895)
From: Encyclopedia of Multicultural Education

DOUGLASS, FREDERICK
From: Historical Dictionary of Reconstruction

Douglass, Frederick
From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights

DOUGLASS, FREDERICK (1817–1895)
From: W.E.B. Du Bois

Douglass, Frederick (1817–1895)
From: Encyclopedia of Racism in the United States


From: Music of the Civil War Era

Douglass, Frederick (1818–1895)
From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature

Douglass, Frederick (1818–1895)
From: A Langston Hughes Encyclopedia

Douglass, Frederick (1818–1895)
From: Affirmative Action

DOUGLASS, FREDERICK (1818–1895)
From: Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery

Douglass, Frederick (1818–1895)
From: Writing African American Women

Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)
From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature

DOUGLASS, FREDERICK (1818–1895)
From: Encyclopedia of American Civil Rights and Liberties [Three Volumes]

Douglass, Frederick (c. 1818–1895)
From: Encyclopedia of the Reconstruction Era [Two Volumes]

FREDERICK DOUGLASS
From: African American Orators

FREDERICK DOUGLASS
From: Quotations in Black

Frederick Douglass [Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey]
From: Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics

Frederick Douglass's Business Enterprises
From: Encyclopedia of African American Business

FREDERICK DOUGLASS ( February 14, 1818–February 20, 1895 )
From: Leaders of the American Civil War

FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1818–1895)
From: African American Authors, 1745–1945

FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1818–1895)
From: African American Autobiographers

INTRODUCTION
From: Frederick Douglass

Primary Documents of Reconstruction
From: Reconstruction

slave-breaker or nigger-breaker
From: The Language of the Civil War

American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
http://www.nps.gov/archive/frdo/freddoug.html

The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/doughome.html

Photo 3. Frederick Douglass, leader of African Americans from 1845 to 1895. “Someone imbued with the spirit of human freedom has arisen among the oppressed to lead themselves on to victory.” National Archives photo No. 121-BA-74, 1999.

Engraving of Frederick Douglass from Autographs for Freedom, edited by Julia Griffiths, 1854.

Frederick Douglass in his late twenties. Unidentified artist, circa 1844. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Frederick Douglass (seated at the table, right of center) at an outdoor abolitionist rally. Madison County Historical Society, Oneida, New York.

Frederick Douglass, lithograph.

Portrait of Frederick Douglass, perhaps the most famous American abolitionist.

Undated portrait of Frederick Douglass. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Frederick Douglass, ca. 1870

Frederick Douglass. (Library of Congress)

Former slave Frederick Douglass worked tirelessly for abolition before the Civil War and for equal rights afterwards. National Archives.