Frederick Douglass Collections

Frederick Douglass, by C.M. Bell

The Gilder Lehrman Institute published a collection of interesting essays that we would like to share with students of American history.

“To commemorate the bicentennial of the birth of Frederick Douglass, a man many regard as one of the greatest Americans in our history, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History has gathered here short essays by leading scholars focused on selected documents written by Douglass.”

CONTENTS

• Timeline

• “Do Something”: A Letter from Frederick Douglass to an Abolitionist in Ireland | Manisha Sinha

• Douglass and the US Constitution: The Dred Scott Decision | Randall Kennedy

• “I Love You but Hate Slavery”: Douglass Writes to a Former Master | Lois E. Horton

• Admiration and Ambivalence: Frederick Douglass and John Brown | David W. Blight

• “Your Late Lamented Husband”: Douglass to Mary Todd Lincoln | David W. Blight

• “A Vulgar and Senseless Prejudice”: A Protest against Segregation in the North | Steven Mintz

• Frederick Douglass and the “Merits of This Fearful Conflict” | David W. Blight

• “The Seed Time of a Great Harvest”: Douglass Recalls Fellow Abolitionists | Quandra Prettyman

• “One of the Noblest Wisest and Best Men”: Douglass on President Lincoln | James Oakes

• “The Post in the Centre of My House”: Douglass Mourns His Wife Anna | Leigh K. Fought

• Frederick Douglass and the “Progress of American Liberty” | James O. Horton

• “Hidden Practices”: Frederick Douglass on Black Achievement in the South | Edward L. Ayers

• Frederick Douglass on the Disfranchisement of Blacks in the South | Lucas Morel

• Frederick Douglass: An Example for the Twenty-First Century | Noelle N. Trent

• Reaching across the Racial Divide: Douglass to Benjamin Auld | David S. Reynolds