Episode 38

The (Early) Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

Barnes, L. Diane, editor. Frederick Douglass: A Life in Documents. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2013.

Blight, David W. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. New York: Simon  & Schuster, 2018.

Buccola, Nicholas. The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass: In Pursuit of American Liberty. New York: New York University Press, 2012. 

Davis, Reginald F. Frederick Douglass: A Precursor of Liberation Theology: Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2005.

Dilbeck, D.H. Frederick Douglass: America’s Prophet. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.

Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Dover Thrift Editions. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1995. 

Douglass, Frederick. My Bondage and My Freedom. Miller, Orton, & Mulligan, 1855.

Douglass, Frederick. “Letter from Frederick Douglass To Thomas Auld, September 3, 1848.” in  Foner, Philip, editor. Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 1999, p. 111. Accessed at: https://glc.yale.edu/letter-thomas-auld-september-3-1848.

Douglass, Frederick. Life & Times of Frederick Douglass. New York, Bonanza Books, 1992. (Reprinted from the original 1892 version).

Douglass, Frederick. “The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro.” Africans in America. PBS.org. Accessed at: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2927.html.

Douglass, Frederick, and James McCune Smith. My Bondage and My Freedom. The Floating Press, 2009.

Levine, Robert S. The Lives of Frederick Douglass. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016. 

Rae, Noel. The Great Stain: Witnessing American Slavery: New York: Abrams, 2018.

Stewart, James Brewer, editor. William Lloyd Garrison at Two Hundred. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. 

Williams, Diana. “To My Old Master.” Back Story. February 29, 2016. Accessed at: https://backstoryradio.org/blog/to-my-old-master/.