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Acknowledgments

The publication of Frederick Douglass's third autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, marks the completion of the Douglass Papers' second series of volumes. Autobiographical Writings. Editor John R. McKivigan played the primary role in this text's inception, researching and planning for years before work on the volume began in earnest. As with earlier volumes. McKivigan benefited greatly from the project founder John Blassingame's vision for the autobiographical writings series and from the preliminary work accomplished by Blassingame and his staff at Yale University. Important early work on the volume also was performed by Douglass Papers staff at West Virginia University, Victoria Gruber, and Gerald Fulkerson. The project would like to thank the National Endowment of the Humanities and especially the National Historical Publications and Records Commision for their continuing support of our work.

The bulk of the Lifc and Times work was undertaken at Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis, where the project relocated its operations in summer 1998. The Douglass Papers is grateful for the institutional support from the School of Liberal Arts and the Department of History. A special debt is owed to the following individuals at Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis for their assistance to the project: William A. Blomquist, David A. Ford, Philip Goff, Mary Gelzleichter, Joy Kramer, Edith Millikan, Sharon Peterman, Gail Plater, Herman Saatkamp, Philip Scarpino, William Schneider, and Robert W. White.

Gratitude is also due to a number of specific indviduals and organizations. Timothy Connelly frum the National Historical Publications and Records Commission and the staff of the National Endowment for the Humanities supplied valuable advice to the Douglass Papers over many years. The National Historical Publications and Records Commission deserves additional thanks for its assignment to this project of Sean P. Adams as a Documentary Editing Fellow. During the development of this volume, we were fortunate to benefit from productive conversations with visiting researchers: Nicholas Buccola of Linfield College shared his insights on Douglass from the perspective of political science; University of California-Berkeley's Samuel Otter provided us with new ideas while working on his own book: Ann Coughlan, visiting from University College,

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Cork, Ireland, provided us with unique interpretations of Douglass's time in the British Isles. Exchanges with Robert Levine of University of Maryland and David Blight of Yale University have stimulated our thought and work. Indiana University undergraduate Aaron Fogle spent the summer of 2009 conducting research and writing annotations for the present volume. We thank him for his meticulous attention to detail and his accuracy. Lou Ann Crisler provided essential contributions to the final tandem collations of the text. Jessica Peters of Florida State University provided a similar contribution, and, in addition, lent the present volume her technical expertise in the form of the digital reproductions of the original illustrations that appeared in Life and Times.

The Douglass Papers is fortunate to share space and resources with an extraordinarily generous and accomplished community of scholars and staff. This critical edition is one of four residing at the Institute for American Thought of Indiana University's School of Liberal Arts. Our colleagues from the Peirce Edition Project, the Santayana Edition, and the Ray Bradbury Edition have contributed in many ways to this volume, recounting their own comparable experiences, suggesting innovations, and sharing their wisdom with great good spirit and humor. For their help and exemplary collegiality, we wish to thank David Pfeifer, Nathan Houser. Andre De Tienne, Cornelis de Waal, Diana Reynolds, Joseph Kaposta, Ali Zimmerman, Marianne Wokeck, Kristine Frost, Martin Coleman, Johanna Resler, David Spiech, Bryan Roesler, Martha Rujuwa, and Kara Peterson. Professor Jonathan R. Eller, Senior Textual Editor for the Institute, provided help with such consistency that one sentence cannot discharge the project's debt to him; his patience and encyclopedic knowledge have proven invaluable.

The Douglass Papers wishes to thank the members of the faculty Millenium Black Studies Seminar (2009-2010) at the Indiana University School of Liberal Arts for providing input on an early draft of the volume introduction; the project is grateful for insightful comments from Johnny Goldfinger, Susan Hyatt, Ronda C. Henry, Missy Kubitschek, Thomas F. Marvin, Modupe Labode, and Nancy Robertson.

The editors at Yale University Press have shepherded Douglass Papers volumes through the production process with great care and skill. Special thanks are due to Vadim Staklo, our series editor, and to Margaret Otzel. senior production editor, for their guidance.

Abbreviations

ACAB Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography AHR American Historical Review ANB American National Biography ASB Anti-Slavery Bugle BDUSC Biographic Directory of the United States Congress CH Church History ChR Christian Recorder CtHnf Nook Farm Research Library CtY Yale University CWH Civil War History DAB Dictionary of American Biography DANB Dictionary of American Negro Biography DHU-MS Moorland-Spingarn Library, Howard University DLC Library of Congress DM Douglass' Monthly DNB Dictionary of National Biography EAAH Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895 FD Frederick Douglass FDP Frederick Douglass' Paper JAH Journal of American History JISHS Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society JNH Journal of Negro History JSH Journal of Southern History Lib Liberator LNArc Amistad Research Center, Louisiana State University MB Boston Public Library MdAA Hall of Records Commission, Annapolis, Md. MdHi Maryland Historical Society MdHM Maryland Historical Magazine MdTCH Talbot County, Maryland, Courthouse MeB Bowdoin College Library MHiS Massachusetts Historical Society MPlyS Sturgis Library, Barnstable, Massachusetts MVHR Mississippi Valley Historical Review NAR North American Review NASS National Anti-Slavery Standard NAW Notable American Women NCAB National Cyclopaedia of American Biography

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NEQ New England Quarterly NHB Negro History Bulletin NHi New-York Historical Society NjP Princeton University NNE New National Era NRU University of Rochester NS North Star NSyU Syracuse University OR The War of Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies PaF Pennsylvania Freeman PHi Historical Society of Pennsylvania RH Rochester History