SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Original Documents by Frederick Douglass

Blassingame, John W., and John R. McKivigan, eds. The Frederick Douglass Papers. Series 1: Speeches, Debates, and Interviews. 5 vols. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979–1992.

——, eds. The Frederick Douglass Papers. Series 2: Autobiographical Writings. 3 vols. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999–2011.

Foner, Philip S., ed. Frederick Douglass on Women’s Rights. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1976.

——, ed. Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass. 5 vols. New York: International Publishers, 1950–75.

McCurdy, Michael, ed. Escape from Slavery: The Boyhood of Frederick Douglass in His Own Words. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.

McKivigan, John R., ed. The Frederick Douglass Papers. Series 3: Correspondence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.

Meltzer, Milton, ed. Frederick Douglass, in His Own Words. San Diego, Calif.: Harcourt Brace, 1995.

Biographies and Studies of Frederick Douglass

Andrews, William, ed. The Oxford Frederick Douglass Reader. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Bennett, Evelyn. Frederick Douglass and the War against Slavery. Brookfield, Conn.: The Millbrook Press, 1993.

Blight, David W. Frederick Douglass’s Civil War: Keeping the Faith in Jubilee. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.

Dietrich, Maria. Love across Color Lines: Ottilie Asking & Frederick Douglass. New York: Hill and Wang, 1999.

Foner, Philip S. Frederick Douglass. New York: Citadel Press, 1950.

Gregory, James M. Frederick Douglass, the Orator. [1893.] Reprint. New York: Apollo Editions, 1971.

Huggins, Nathan Irvin. Slave and Citizen: The Life of Frederick Douglass. Edited by Oscar Handlin. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980.

Keenan, Sheila. Frederick Douglass: Portrait of a Freedom Fighter. New York: Scholastic, 1995.

Larson, Bill, and Frank Kirkland, eds. Frederick Douglass: A Critical Reader. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 1999.

Levine, Robert S. Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Martin, Waldo E., Jr. The Mind of Frederick Douglass. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984.

McFeely, William S. Frederick Douglass. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.

McKissack, Patricia, and Fredrick McKissack. Frederick Douglass: The Black Lion. Chicago: Children’s Press, 1987.

Myers, Peter C. Frederick Douglass: Race and the Rebirth of American Liberalism. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2008.

Miller, Douglass T. Frederick Douglass and the Fight for Freedom. New York: Facts on File, 1988.

Oakes, James. The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics. New York: W. W. Norton, 2007.

Preston, Dickson J. Young Frederick Douglass: The Maryland Years. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.

Quarles, Benjamin. Frederick Douglass. 1948; New York: Da Capo, 1997.

Rice, Allan J., and Martin Crawford. Liberating Sojourn: Frederick Douglass & Transatlantic Reform. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999.

Russell, Sharman Apt. Frederick Douglass. New York: Chelsea House, 1988.

Stauffer, John. Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. New York: Twelve Publishers, 2009.

Voss, Frederick S. Majestic in His Wrath: A Pictorial Life of Frederick Douglass. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.

Washington, Booker T. Frederick Douglass. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Company, 1906.

General Histories of the Abolitionist and Early Civil Rights Movements

Aptheker, Herbert. Abolitionism: A Revolutionary Movement. Boston: Twayne, 1989.

Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2002.

Dillon, Merton L. Slavery Attacked: Southern Slaves and Their Allies, 1619–1865. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990.

Fields, Barbara Jeanne. Slavery and Freedom in the Middle Ground: Maryland in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Friedman, Lawrence J. Gregarious Saints: Self and Community in American Abolitionism, 1830–1870. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Hinks, Peter P. To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren: David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.

Levine, Lawrence. Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.

Litwack, Leon F. Trouble in Mind: Southern Blacks in the Age of Jim Crow. New York: Vintage, 1999.

McPherson, James M. The Abolitionist Legacy: From Reconstruction to the NAACP. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975.

Moses, Wilson J. The Golden Age of Black Nationalism, 1850–1925. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1978.

Painter, Nell Irvin. Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas after Reconstruction. New York: Knopf, 1976.

Pease, Jane H., and William H. Pease. They Who Would Be Free: Blacks’ Search for Freedom, 1830–1861. New York: Athenaeum, 1974.

Stauffer, John. The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002.

Stewart, James Brewer. Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery. [1976.] 2d ed. New York: Hill and Wang, 1997.

Williamson, Joel. The Crucible of Race: Black/White Relations in the American South since Emancipation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.

Wintz, Cary D. African American Political Thought 1890–1930: Washington, Dubois, Garvey, and Randolph. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1996.

Woodward, C. Vann. The Strange Career of Jim Crow. 3rd rev. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.