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Douglass Texts in Electronic Form: Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (mini-edition), Model Editions Partnership. Chapter 10 (the battle with slave-breaker Edward Covey) of Douglass's Narrative, complete with textual notes, emendations, historical collation, and historical annotations. A definitive on-line edition. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, University of North Carolina. A complete facsimile of the 1845 version of Douglass's Narrative from the Documenting the American South project, with bibliography to related reading. My Bondage and My Freedom, University of North Carolina. A complete facsimile of the 1855 version of Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom from the Documenting the American South project, with bibliography to related reading. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass [1881] [1892], University of North Carolina. A complete facsimile of the each version of Douglass's Life and Times from the Documenting the American South project, with bibliography to related reading. Biography: Frederick Douglass by Charles Wadell Chesnutt. The earliest biography of Douglass by an African American contemporary, from the Documenting the American South project.   Documents: Frederick Douglass Project, University of Rochester. Includes scanned images of Douglass's correspondence in the Post Family Papers, Frederick Douglass, and other collections at the University of Rochester. Also, some transcriptions, essays, links, and intern opportunities. "My Escape from Slavery," by Frederick Douglass, Century Illustrated Magazine, Project Gutenberg. A transcription of Douglass's escape from slavery as he first publicly told the story in November 1881.

Frederick Douglass Related Sites: Maryland: Historical Society of Talbot County, Maryland Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Maryland Frederick Douglass Organization Frederick Douglass House, Highland Beach, Maryland Massachusetts: Frederick Douglass Memorial in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Rochester, New York: Frederick Douglass Museum and Cultural Center in Rochester, New York. Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York, burial site of Frederick Douglass, Anna Murray Douglass, Helen Pitts Douglass, Rosetta Douglass Sprague, and Sprague Family Rochester History. A journal dedicated to the history of Rochester, New York, with articles available online in PDF format. Cedar Hill, Anacostia, D.C.: Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, National Parks Service, Anacostia, Washington, D.C. Frederick Douglass's final home, Cedar Hill, now a museum in the nation's capitol. Photos of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Home, circa 1938, New Deal Network. Washington, D.C.: Frederick Douglass Museum and Hall of Fame for Caring Americans, 320 A Street N.E., Site of Douglass's first home in Washington, D.C., before his purchase of Cedar Hill.

Electronic Texts & Documents Slave Narratives: From the Schomburg African American Women Writers of the 19th Century collection, Shomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library: Biography of an American Bondman, by Josephine Brown Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days, by Annie L. Burton Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet A. Jacobs A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince The Narrative of Bethany Veney From North American Slave Narratives, Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. Narratives in this collection include those of the following persons (among many others): Charles Ball Henry Bibb Henry "Box" Brown William Wells Brown Lewis and Milton Clarke William and Ellen Craft Olaudah Equiano Harriet Jacobs Lunsford Lane Solomon Northup James W.C. Pennington Sojourner Truth [1850] [1875] [1884] Nat Turner Samuel R. Ward Other: Hypertexts by the American Studies Group at the University of Virginia The Roving Editor, Chapter IV, by James Redpath Excerpts from Slave Narratives, edited by Stephen Mintz "Been Here So Long", WPA slave narratives, New Deal Network.

Web Resources on Abolition and Slavery American Abolition Project, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis Abolition Activism in Wisconsin African American Experience in Ohio, Ohio Historical Society. The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University The Papers of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Model Editions Partnership Martin Delany, West Virginia University William Lloyd Garrison, National Parks Service The Lucretia Coffin Mott Papers Project Gerrit Smith Virtual Museum, New York History Net Freedmen and Southern Society Project Harriet Jacobs Papers Project, Pace University, New York, New York Agencies & Associations: National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) National Council on Public History (NCPH) American Memory (subject headings page), Library of Congress and affliliated institutions. Indiana-Purdue University at Indianapolis: IUPUI IUPUI Department of History IUPUI School of Liberal Arts Institute for American Thought, IUPUI Charles S. Peirce Papers Santayana Edition