Items
Details
Table of Contents
Introduction
Suggested readings
A note on the texts
Autobiographies
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
My bondage and my freedom. The Master's house - The slave's right to steal - Chapter XVII: the last flogging - Floggable offenses - The Liberator and William Lloyd Garrison - Abolitionist lecturer - Chapter XXV: various incidents
Life and times of Frederick Douglass. Details of his escape from slavery - John Brown - Harriet Beecher Stowe and free blacks - John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry - Black soldiers and the union - A meeting with his former master - Conclusion to the 1881 edition - A rationale for the 1892 edition
Selected writings. A comparison of the treatment of blacks in the United States and Great Britain - In defense of purchasing freedom - On the union, religion, and the constitution - Establishing the North Start - North Star: statement of purpose - Black churches and segregation - American colorphobia - Women's rights - Letter to his former master - The evils of war - On being seen walking with two white women - The heroic slave [fiction] - Free blacks must learn trades - Three kinds of abolitionists - Resolutions against capital punishment - Contradictions in American civilization - Lincoln's new presidency - What should be done with emancipated slaves? - The progress of blacks twenty years after emancipation - The future of blacks in the United States.
Suggested readings
A note on the texts
Autobiographies
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
My bondage and my freedom. The Master's house - The slave's right to steal - Chapter XVII: the last flogging - Floggable offenses - The Liberator and William Lloyd Garrison - Abolitionist lecturer - Chapter XXV: various incidents
Life and times of Frederick Douglass. Details of his escape from slavery - John Brown - Harriet Beecher Stowe and free blacks - John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry - Black soldiers and the union - A meeting with his former master - Conclusion to the 1881 edition - A rationale for the 1892 edition
Selected writings. A comparison of the treatment of blacks in the United States and Great Britain - In defense of purchasing freedom - On the union, religion, and the constitution - Establishing the North Start - North Star: statement of purpose - Black churches and segregation - American colorphobia - Women's rights - Letter to his former master - The evils of war - On being seen walking with two white women - The heroic slave [fiction] - Free blacks must learn trades - Three kinds of abolitionists - Resolutions against capital punishment - Contradictions in American civilization - Lincoln's new presidency - What should be done with emancipated slaves? - The progress of blacks twenty years after emancipation - The future of blacks in the United States.