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Historical Collation

This volume's "Textual Afterword" and 'Textual Notes" identify representative
editorial emendations of the copy-texts, explaining why the editors adopted or
rejected textual variants that appeared in print during Frederick Douglass's lifetime.
Therein the editors also commented upon the rationales for making emendations
without historical precedent. Complementing the explanations in both sections are
the following entries dealing with substantive readings that vary from those of the
Yale edition—variants that the editors view as non-authoritative but historically
noteworthy and likely to be of interest to the reader.

Each entry begins with the page and line citation for the reading in the Yale
edition that appears immediately to the right. Beyond the bracket that follows are
the variant reading and then the symbols indicating the edition(s) and printing(s)
111 which that reading appears. The symbols are those seen in the "Descriptive
Bibliography" section of this volume:
A1 A5 signify the five printings of the first American edition:
E1 E4 the English edition's four printings:
BI B4 the four second American edition's printings:
BX1 BX3 the three printings of the expanded second American edition.

9.2 6 shelter; and as to riding in public conveyances, mean spirited conductors at
one time made it a rule to put all colored people, nolens volens, in the smoking car.
Many times was Douglass subjected to this indignity. The] shelter. The A2-5,
B1-4. BX1-3
9.20 23 platform. Free speech was violated: Boston was disgraced: but the Chairman
of that meeting was not intimidated. It] platform. It A2-5. B1-4. BX1-3
9.34 Boston, Sept. 1st, 1881.] Not present A2-5, B1-4, BX1-3
70.34 thought] taught E1-4
83.26 attitudes] attributes E1-4
92.24 sight] looks E1-4
97.11 fornication] unchastity E1-4
99.27 You have, dear reader, seen] The reader has seen E1-4
99.28 and you understand how] and understands how E1-4
116.23 24 would plan an insurrection, no fear that he would escape] would escape
E1-4
116.26 slave. But to proceed with my narrative.] slave. E1-4
126.7-8 concealment or destruction] concealment to escape destruction E1-4
138.16-17 Well, dear reader, I was not, as you have probably inferred, a loser by
the general upstir described in the foregoing chapter. The little Our little E1-4

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