Frederick Douglass Papers

Autobiographical Writings, Volume 2, My Bondage and My Freedom

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Autobiographical Writings, Volume 3, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Book 1)

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Autobiographical Writings, Volume 3, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Book 2: Historical Annotations)

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Correspondence, Volume 1: 1842-1852 (Published and Unpublished)

Documents--both published and unpublished--in Correspondence, Volume 1: 1842-1852 can be found on the Frederick Douglass Digital Edition website at https://frederickdouglasspapersproject.com/s/digitaledition/page/home

Correspondence, Volume 3: 1866-1880 (documents to come)

The published volume Correspondence, Volume 3: 1866-1880, will include 242 letters published in full, and 575 calendared, or summarized letters, for a total of 817 letters. The documents now included in this collection are all calendared documents and more will be made available on this site in...

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Correspondence, Volume 4: 1881-1888 (documents to come)

The published volume will include 252 letters in full, and 667 calendared (or summarized) documents, for a total of 919 letters.

Correspondence, Volume 5: 1889-1895 (Unpublished documents now available to transcribe)

Correspondence Volume 5 (1889-1895) will be published in 2026. The published documents will be made publicly available on this space in 2028. Meanwhile, unpublished documents that will be calendared in Volume 5 are available here for transcription. More will be added to this site as they are...

Speeches, Debates, and Interviews Volume 1: 1841-1846

The speeches published in Speeches, Debates, and Interviews Volume 1: 1841-1846 (Yale University Press, 1979) can be found on the Frederick Douglass Digital Edition website at https://frederickdouglasspapersproject.com/s/digitaledition/page/home

Speeches, Debates, and Interviews Volume 3: 1855-1863

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Speeches, Debates, and Interviews Volume 4: 1864-1880

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Speeches, Debates, and Interviews Volume 5: 1881-1895

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