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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Frederick Douglass Links

Douglass’ speeches, letters and books

The Frederick Douglass Papers Edition — complete works, gathered by the Institute for American Thought

TeachingAmericanHistory.org — contains most of Douglass’ major speeches

Project Gutenberg:
Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass on Reconstruction (audio reading)
My Bondage and My Freedom
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Documenting the American South: Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress

General information sites

National Park Service:
Cedar Hill (Douglass' last home)
Frederick Douglass Virtual Museum

Frederick Douglass Resource Center (Rochester, NY)

Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress — includes searchable archive of correspondence, photographs, etc.

Frederick Douglass Project at the University of Rochester

Frederick Douglass Book Prize (The Gilder Lehman Institute for American History)


Fan sites and Douglass impersonator sites and clips

Script for a play about Douglass and major abolitionist figures

Actor Fred Morsell
Performance clips
from Morsell

The Spirit of Frederick Douglass — Michael E. Crutcher, Sr.

Phil Darius Wallace

Bill Grimmette – Clips from 2003 performance at Chautauqua 2003 on the Germantown Campus, Montgomery College

Modern-day opinions of Douglass
(Links may eventually go dead.)
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/11/horton.lincoln.douglass/index.html#cnnSTCText
http://www.gomemphis.com/news/2009/jan/26/sonorous-solo-connecting/
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-210766
http://technorati.com/photos/tag/frederick-douglass
http://civilwartalk.com/forums/book-movie-review-tent/28865-parallel-lives-frederick-douglass-abraham-lincoln.html

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