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Primary Sources, in chronological order
Douglass, Frederick. “AMERICAN PREJUDICE AND SOUTHERN RELIGION.” Speech. November 4, 1841. In The Frederick Douglass Papers, Series One: Speeches, Debates, and Interviews, Volume 1: 1841-1846, by Frederick Douglass and John W. Blassingame. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.
———. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Autobiography, 1845. In The Frederick Douglass Papers, Series Two: Autobiographical Writings, Volume 1: Narrative, by Frederick Douglass, John W. Blassingame, John R. McKivigan, and Peter P. Hinks. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.
———. “COUNTRY, CONSCIENCE, AND THE ANTI-SLAVERY CAUSE.” Speech. May 11, 1847. In The Frederick Douglass Papers, Series One: Speeches, Debates, and Interviews, Volume 2: 1847-1854, by Frederick Douglass and John W. Blassingame. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.
———. “Rights of Women.” The North Star (Rochester, NY), Jul. 28, 1848. https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84026365/1848-07-28/ed-1/.
———. “FREDERICK DOUGLASS TO THOMAS AULD.” September 8, 1848. In The Frederick Douglass Papers, Series Three: Correspondence, Volume 1: 1842-1852, by Frederick Douglass and John R. McKivigan. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.
———. “Change of Opinion Announced.” The North Star (Rochester, NY), May 15, 1851. In Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings, edited by Philip S. Foner, abridged and adapted by Yuval Taylor. Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press, 1999.
———. “WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE FOURTH OF JULY?” Speech. May 11, 1847. In The Frederick Douglass Papers, Series One: Speeches, Debates, and Interviews, Volume 2: 1847-1854, by Frederick Douglass and John W. Blassingame. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.
———. My Bondage and My Freedom. Autobiography. 1855. In The Frederick Douglass Papers, Series Two: Autobiographical Writings, Volume 2: My Bondage and My Freedom, by Frederick Douglass, John W. Blassingame, John R. McKivigan, and Peter P. Hinks. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
———. “Capt. John Brown Not Insane.” Douglass’s Monthly (Rochester, NY), November 1859. https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?collection=slavery&handle=hein.slavery/dougmo0001&id=151&men_tab=srchresultsn.
———. “THE TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS OF SELF-MADE MEN.” Speech. January 4, 1860. In The Frederick Douglass Papers, Series One: Speeches, Debates, and Interviews, Volume 3: 1855-1863, by Frederick Douglass and John W. Blassingame. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.
———. “MEN OF COLOR, TO ARMS! NOW OR NEVER.” Broadside (Photograph). March 21, 1863. https://www.loc.gov/item/scsm000556/.
———. “WE WELCOME THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT.” Speech. May 12-13, 1869. In The Frederick Douglass Papers, Series One: Speeches, Debates, and Interviews, Volume 4: 1864-1880, by Frederick Douglass, John W. Blassingame, and John R. McKivigan. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.
———. “OUR COMPOSITE NATIONALITY.” Speech. December 7, 1869. In The Frederick Douglass Papers, Series One: Speeches, Debates, and Interviews, Volume 4: 1864-1880, by Frederick Douglass, John W. Blassingame, and John R. McKivigan. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.
———. “THE COLOR QUESTION.” Speech. July 5, 1875. In The Frederick Douglass Papers, Series One: Speeches, Debates, and Interviews, Volume 4: 1864-1880, by Frederick Douglass, John W. Blassingame, and John R. McKivigan. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.
———. “THE FREEDMEN’S MONUMENT TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN.” Speech. April 14, 1876. In The Frederick Douglass Papers, Series One: Speeches, Debates, and Interviews, Volume 4: 1864-1880, by Frederick Douglass, John W. Blassingame, and John R. McKivigan. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.
———. “John Brown.” Speech (PDF). May 30, 1881. In the Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection, Dover, N.H.: Morning Star Job Printing House, 1881. https://www.loc.gov/item/07012896/.
———. The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. Autobiography. 1892. In The Frederick Douglass Papers, Series Two: Autobiographical Writings, Volume 3: Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Book 1: The Text and Editorial Apparatus, by Frederick Douglass and John R. McKivigan. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.
———. “Why is the Negro Lynched.” Pamphlet (PDF). Bridgwater, England: John Whitby and Sons, Limited, 1895. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/59116/59116-h/59116-h.htm.
SECONDARY SOURCES
Blassingame, John W., John R. McKivigan, and Peter P. Hinks, eds. The Frederick Douglass Papers, Series One, Two, and Three. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1879-2012.
Blight, David. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018.
Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings. Edited by Philip S. Foner. Abridged and adapted by Yuval Taylor. Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press, 1999.
The Oxford Frederick Douglass Reader. Edited by William L. Andrews. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
The Portable Frederick Douglass. Edited by John Stauffer and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Penguin Random House, 2016.
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