| 1Line-End Hyphenation in the Copy-Texts
At the ends of lines in the copy-texts appear the beginnings of compound words that,
following hyphenation, continue in their spellings on the next line. Whether Frederick
Douglass intended a hyphenated form of the word or an unhyphenated spelling is not
determinable, given not only that the copy-texts do not include a representative
sample of such choices in his own hand. Indeed, none of the copy-texts is a holograph,
and in this instance there is no reliable way to distinguish between Douglass's preferences
and those of his typist(s), editors, and compositors. Ineluctable, though, is the
editorial necessity of rendering a decision on a "solid'' or hyphenated spelling, and the
editors have elected to do so in the Yale edition by means of adopting the dominant
form appearing in the copy-texts of Life and Times.
[left column]
4.7 co-laborers
4.32 self-development
5.18 twenty-three
5.38 slave-breeding
13.5 slave-holding
16.8 Railroad
16.33 steamship
19.20 anti-slavery
23.36 grandmother
24.10 grandchildren
25.20 grand-mamma
32.16 high-handed
32.28 grandmother's
33.18 turkey-houses
34.26 blacksmith
35.39 head-ship
36.1 store-houses
40.4 heart-rending
40.34 overseer
42.28 overpowered
43.3 freeman
43.10 death-bed
46.30 Fault-finding
47.6 painstaking
47.22 overlooked
48.25 health-seeking
[right column]
51.25 handcuffed
52.7 overseer
52.13 overseer
52.22 overseer
52.27 overseer
56.7 forehead
58.32-33 shooting-crackers
61.16 kind-hearted
64.15 slaveholder
67.12 heart-searching
67.13 slaveholder
70.25 slaveholding
71.5 slaveholders
73.8 starboard
73.10-11 starboard
75.9 pathway
78.12 grandmother
79.2 slaveholder
81.11-12 awe-struck
81.26 Slaveholders
83.13 slaveholder
85.19 slaveholder
85.22 hard-heartedness
87.2 Sabbath-school
87.24 class-leaders
90.29 life-long
531 | 1Line-End Hyphenation in the Copy-Texts
At the ends of lines in the copy-texts appear the beginnings of compound words that,
following hyphenation, continue in their spellings on the next line. Whether Frederick
Douglass intended a hyphenated form of the word or an unhyphenated spelling is not
determinable, given not only that the copy-texts do not include a representative
sample of such choices in his own hand. Indeed, none of the copy-texts is a holograph,
and in this instance there is no reliable way to distinguish between Douglass's preferences
and those of his typist(s), editors, and compositors. Ineluctable, though, is the
editorial necessity of rendering a decision on a "solid'' or hyphenated spelling, and the
editors have elected to do so in the Yale edition by means of adopting the dominant
form appearing in the copy-texts of Life and Times.
[left column]
4.7 co-laborers
4.32 self-development
5.18 twenty-three
5.38 slave-breeding
13.5 slave-holding
16.8 Railroad
16.33 steamship
19.20 anti-slavery
23.36 grandmother
24.10 grandchildren
25.20 grand-mamma
32.16 high-handed
32.28 grandmother's
33.18 turkey-houses
34.26 blacksmith
35.39 head-ship
36.1 store-houses
40.4 heart-rending
40.34 overseer
42.28 overpowered
43.3 freeman
43.10 death-bed
46.30 Fault-finding
47.6 painstaking
47.22 overlooked
48.25 health-seeking
[right column]
51.25 handcuffed
52.7 overseer
52.13 overseer
52.22 overseer
52.27 overseer
56.7 forehead
58.32-33 shooting-crackers
61.16 kind-hearted
64.15 slaveholder
67.12 heart-searching
67.13 slaveholder
70.25 slaveholding
71.5 slaveholders
73.8 starboard
73.10-11 starboard
75.9 pathway
78.12 grandmother
79.2 slaveholder
81.11-12 awe-struck
81.26 Slaveholders
83.13 slaveholder
85.19 slaveholder
85.22 hard-heartedness
87.2 Sabbath-school
87.24 class-leaders
90.29 life-long
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