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

This volume contains all published documents which do not require transcription. They have OCR text that requires some clean up.

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

    This volume contains all published documents which do not require transcription. They have OCR text that requires some clean up.

      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        Correspondence, Volume 5: 1889-1895 (Unpublished documents now available to transcribe)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 Meanwhile, unpublished documents that will be calendared in Volume 5 are available here for transcription.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...

          NEW! Documents for Transcription (1853-1865)

          Documents to be transcribed in 2023 for Correspondence Volume 2. Some documents had OCR performed on them before they were uploaded to this site. If you find pages with messy and gibberish text, that is the reason. You can delete that text and start from scratch if that is easier for you instead...

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