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Frederick Douglass (September 2018): Works Cited

By Duncan R. Jamieson

Works Cited

Anadolu-Okur, Nilgun. Dismantling Slavery: Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Formation of the Abolitionist Crusade, 1841–1853. Tennessee, 2016.

Andrews, William L. To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography. Illinois, 1988.

Aymer, Margaret P. First Pure, Then Peaceable: Frederick Douglass, Darkness, and the Epistle of James. T&T Clark, 2008.

Barnes, L. Diane. Frederick Douglass: Reformer and Statesman. Routledge/Taylor & Frances, 2013.

Baxter, Terry. Frederick Douglass’s Curious Audience: Ethos in the Age of the Consumable Subject. Routledge, 2004.

Blight, David W. Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln: A Relationship in Language, Politics and Memory. Marquette, 2001.

____. Frederick Douglass’ Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee. Louisiana, 1989 (CH, Jan’90, 27-2886).

Buccola, Nicholas. The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass: In Pursuit of American Liberty. New York University, 2012 (CH, Nov’12, 50-1727).

Burke, Ronald K. Frederick Douglass: Crusading Orator for Human Rights. Garland, 1996.

The Cambridge Companion to Frederick Douglass, ed. by Maurice S. Lee. Cambridge, 2009.

Chesebrough, David B. Frederick Douglass: Oratory from Slavery. Greenwood, 1998.

Chesnutt, Charles W. Frederick Douglass. Johnson Reprint, 1970.

Colaiaco, James A. Frederick Douglass and the Fourth of July. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 (CH, Jan’07, 44-2870).

Cook, William W., and James Tatum. African American Writers and Classical Tradition.  Chicago, 2010 (CH, Oct’10, 48-0723).

Critical Essays on Frederick Douglass, ed. by William L. Andrews. G. K. Hall, 1991.

Dilbeck, D. H. Frederick Douglass: America’s Prophet. North Carolina, 2018 (CH, Jul’18, 55-4177).

Douglass, Frederick. Douglass: Autobiographies—Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas; My Bondage and My Freedom; Life and Times of Frederick Douglas, ed. by Henry Louis Gates.  Library of America, 1994.

____. The Heroic Slave: A Cultural and Critical Edition, ed. by Robert S. Levine, John Stauffer, and John R. McKivigan. Yale, 2015.

Douglass in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates, ed. by John Ernest. Iowa, 2014.

Foner, Philip Sheldon. Frederick Douglass: A Biography. 2nd pbk. ed. Citadel, 1964 (CH, May’64).

Fought, Leigh. Women in the World of Frederick Douglass. Oxford, 2017.

Frederick Douglass: A Critical Reader, ed. by Bill E. Lawson and Frank M. Kirkland.  Blackwell, 1999.

Frederick Douglass: A Life in Documents, ed. by L. Diane Barnes. Virginia, 2013 (CH, Feb’14, 51-3002).

Frederick Douglass: New Literary and Historical Essays, ed. by Eric J. Sundquist. Cambridge, 1990 (CH, Apr’91, 28-4700).

The Frederick Douglass Encyclopedia, ed. by Julius E. Thompson, James L. Conyers Jr., and Nancy J. Dawson. Greenwood, 2009 (CH, Jun’10, 47-5402).

Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville: Essays in Relation, ed. by Robert S. Levine and Samuel Otter. North Carolina, 2008 (CH, Sep’08, 46-0134).

The Frederick Douglass Papers. Series 1, Speeches, Debates and Interviews, ed. by John W. Blassingame. Yale, 1992.

The Frederick Douglass Papers. Series 2, Autobiographical Writings, ed. by John W. Blassingame. Yale, 2012.

Frederick Douglass on Women’s Rights, ed. by Philip S. Foner. Greenwood, 1976.

Graham, Shirley Du Bois. There Was Once a Slave … : The Historic Story of Frederick Douglass. J. Messner, 1947.

Gregory, James M. Frederick Douglass the Orator. Crowell, 1971.

Holland, Frederic May. Frederick Douglass: The Colored Orator. Rev. ed. Funk & Wagnalls, 1895.

Huggins, Nathan Irvin. Slave and Citizen: The Life of Frederick Douglass, ed. by Oscar Handlin. Little, Brown, 1980 (CH, Sep’80).

In the Words of Frederick Douglass: Quotations from Liberty’s Champion, ed. by John R. McKivigan and Heather L. Kaufman. Cornell, 2012 (CH, Sep’12, 50-0039).

Kendrick, Paul, and Stephen Kendrick. Douglass and Lincoln: How a Revolutionary Black Leader and a Reluctant Liberator Struggled to End Slavery and Save the Nation. Walker & Company, 2008 (CH, Jan’09, 46-2866).

King, William S. To Raise Up a Nation: John Brown, Frederick Douglass, and the Making of a Free Country. Westholme, 2013 (CH, Apr’14, 51-4638).

Lampe, Gregory P. Frederick Douglass: Freedom’s Voice, 1818–1845. Michigan State, 1998.

Lemons, Gary L. Womanist Forefathers: Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. DuBois. SUNY, 2009.

Levine, Robert S. The Lives of Frederick Douglass. Harvard, 2016 (CH, Dec’16, 54-1906).

____. Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass and the Politics of Representative Identity. North Carolina, 1997 (CH, Oct’97, 35-0781).

Liberating Reform: Frederick Douglass and Transatlantic Reform, ed. by Alan J. Rice and Martin Crawford. Georgia, 1999.

Martin, Waldo E. The Mind of Frederick Douglass. North Carolina, 1985 (CH, Jul’85).

McFeely, William S. Frederick Douglass. Norton, 1991 (CH, May’91, 28-5292).

Miller, Douglas T. Frederick Douglass and the Fight for Freedom. Facts on File, 1988.

Moses, Wilson Jeremiah. Creative Conflict in African American Thought: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey. Cambridge, 2004.

Muller, John. Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C.: The Lion of Anacostia. History Press, 2012.

Myers, Peter C. Frederick Douglass: Race and the Rebirth of American Liberalism, Kansas, 2008 (CH, Dec’08, 46-2345).

Nielsen, Cynthia R. Foucault, Douglass, Fanon and Scotus in Dialogue: On Social Construction and Freedom. Palgrave McMillan, 2013.

Oakes, James. The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics. W. W. Norton, 2007 (CH, Nov’17, 45-1652).

The Oxford Frederick Douglass Reader, ed. and introd. by William L. Andrews. Oxford, 1996.

Preston, Dickson J. Young Frederick Douglass: The Maryland Years. Johns Hopkins, 1980 (CH, Mar’81).

Quarles, Benjamin. Frederick Douglass, introd. by James M. McPherson. DaCapo, 1997.

Rogers, William B. We Are All Together Now”: Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison and the Prophetic Tradition. Garland Publishing, 1995.

Sandefur, Timothy. Frederick Douglass: Self-Made Man. Cato Institute, 2018.

Stauffer, John. The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race. Harvard, 2002 (CH, Oct’02, 40-1131).

____. Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. Twelve, 2008.

Stauffer, John, Zoe Trodd, and Celeste-Marie Bernier. Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century’s Most Photographed American. Liveright, 2015.

Stephens, Gregory. On Racial Frontiers: The New Culture of Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison and Bob Marley. Cambridge, 1999 (CH, Mar’00, 37-3702).

Sweeney, Fionnghuala. Frederick Douglass and the Atlantic World. Liverpool, 2007.

Voss, Frederick. Majestic in His Wrath: A Pictorial Life of Frederick Douglas, introd. by Robert K. Sutton. Smithsonian, 1995.

Washington, Booker T. Frederick Douglass. Greenwood, 1969.

Waters, Carver Wendall. Voice in the Slave Narratives of Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, and Solomon Northrup. E. Mellen, 2003 (CH, Jun’03, 40-5684).

Yothers, Brian. Reading Abolition: The Critical Reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass. Camden House, 2017 (CH, Oct’17, 55-0531).