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Book

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself : authoritative text, contexts, criticism

Call Number

  • 921 D737N (OSH)

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Publication Information

New York : London : Norton, c1997.

Physical Description

ix, 188 p. ; 22 cm.

Summary

Recounts the life of Frederick Douglass as he recorded it and includes several criticisms of the text.

Contents

  • Preface
  • Text of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself
  • Preface by William Lloyd Garrison
  • Letter from Wendell Phillips
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
  • Contexts
  • Margaret Fuller . [Review of the Narrative](New York Tribune, June 10, 1845)
  • Anonymous / [Review of the narrative](Spectator, November 29, 1845)
  • A. C. C. Thompson [Letter from a former slaveholder] (Liberator, December 12, 1845)
  • Frederick Douglass [Reply to Thompson's letter] (Liberator, February 27, 1846)
  • Preface to the second Dublin edition of the narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass (1846)
  • Douglass on his mother and his father (1845, 1855, 1892)
  • Douglass on his escape from slavery (1882)
  • I am here to spread light on American slavery (October 14, 1845)
  • What to the slave is the Fourth of July? (July 5, 1852)
  • James Monroe Gregory / From Frederick Douglass, the orator (1893)
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton / [Diary entry on Douglass's death] (February 21, 1895)
  • Criticism
  • William S. McFeely / [Writing of the Narrative]
  • Peter Ripley / Autobiographical writings of Frederick Douglass
  • Robert B. Stepto / Narration, authentication, and authorial control in Frederick Douglass' narrative of 1845
  • William L. Andrews / [Frederick Douglass and the American Jeremaid]
  • Houston A. Baker, Jr./ [The Economics of Douglass's Narrative]
  • Deborah E. McDowell / In the first place: Making Frederick Douglass and the Afro-American narrative tradition
  • Frederick Douglass: Chronology
  • Selected bibliography.

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