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City Museum of Washington D.C.:

Primary Sources:

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

Aptheker, Herbert. A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States. New York: Citadel Press, 1951.

Lowenberg, Bert James and Ruth Bogin eds. Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life: Their Words, Their Thoughts, Their Feelings. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, c1976.

Porter, Dorothy. Early Negro Writing, 1760-1837. Selected and introduced by Dorothy Porter. Boston: Beacon Press, 1971.

Ripley, C. Peter. The Black Abolitionist Paper, Volumes III and IV. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, c. 1985. Have a very good introduction.

Smith Foster, Frances ed. A Brighter Coming Day: a Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader. New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York: Distributed by the Talman Co., c1990.

Secondary Sources:

Harley, Sharon and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn eds. The Afro-American Woman: Struggles and Images. Baltimore, MD.: Black Classic Press, 1997.

Horton, James O. Free People of Color: Inside the African American Community. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, c1993.

Litwack, Leon and August Meier eds. Black Leaders of the Nineteenth Century. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1988.

Peterson, Carla L. Doers of the Word: African-American Women Speakers and Writers in the North (1830-1880). New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.

Quarles, Benjamin. Black Abolitionists. London: Oxford University Press, 1970.

Websites:

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/Douglass/Autobiography/

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself: Electronic Edition. Frederick Douglass, 1818-1895.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/douglass/douglass.html

Frederick Douglass, 1818-1895, The Heroic Slave. From Autographs for Freedom, Ed. Julia Griffiths.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/douglass1853/menu.html

 
   
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