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

List of Editorial Emendations

The editors list here all of their emendations of the copy-texts other than those of the kind described in the "Textual Afterword" as warranting "silent emendation." All entries begin with the page and line numbers for Yale edition readings that appear immediately to the right. The large majority of the entries end with the superseded copy-text's reading.

Entries for emendations that the editors have originated cite only the Yale edition reading and, to the right of the bracket, the copy-text's.

Emendations not originated by the editors but adopted from editions published during Douglass's lifetime fall into two classes. Those in the first identify to the right of the bracket and left of the semi-colon the emendation source; and following the semi-colon is the copy-text reading. The second class deals only with the table of contents and chapter headings for Life's "Third Part." Douglass did not include these in the copy-text. and the editors have derived the expanded second American edition. These entries conclude with only a reference to that source.

As in "Textual Notes," the symbols used for the printings in which the adopted readings first appeared are those seen in this volume's "Descriptive Bibliography": e.g., A2 for the second printing of the first American edition: B2 for the second of the second American edition: E3 for the third of the English edition; and BX1 for the first of the expanded second American edition. Asterisks direct the reader's attention to commentaries on editorial decisions provided in "Textual Notes."

[column 1] 4.3 Gerrit] Gerritt 4.28 Douglases] Douglasses 4.28 The Lady] the~ 5.24 Macaulay] Macauley 5.25 (if such)] [?] 9.1 place] B1; places 9.26 L'Ouverture] L'Overture 11.1 6 CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION. FIRST PART. CHAPTER] CONTENTS CHAPTER 12.9 10 Presentiment] B1; Presentment 12.30 sunlight] sunset 13.17 Orator] orator 13.17 O'Connor] Sheridan

[column 2] 13.24 "Nat" Turner] "Nat Turner" 15.4 abhorrence] abhorence 15.27 Gardner's] Gardiner's 15.34 life slave] "Life Slave" 18.6 anxiety―New] ~, new *18.11 Enfranchisement discussed―its accomplishment―The negro] Enfranchisement debated and accomplished―The Negro 18.15 Savings] Saving 18.19 19-22 "WEIGHED IN THE BALANCE." The Santo Wilson.] A2; "Weighed in the Balance." 18.24 admission, "Had] ~ "had 18.35 Delavan] Delevan

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245.6 'bags']"-" 245. J) " FREDERICK] "246.27 though] BI: but 248.29 Gloucester] Glocester 248.31 Gloucester] Glocester 249.2 then] Bl: there 250.33 charged')] -. 251.3 Let] BI: let 251. 11 down] BI : done 251.18 "Nova Scotian,") " Scotia," 251. 18 Borland] Thompson 251.28 was] BI: were 252.3 Britain J BI: Britian 253.26 nor] BI: or 253.33 drag-net]-"255.15-16 slavery into any < . .. > States, and protected it there. J BX I: slavery, and protected it into any < ... > States. 255.24- 25 "Squatter Sovereignty."]"-" I\

256.19 candidate J candidates 256.39 anxious] BI : anxions 257.35 offensive.] BI: -. 258.14 was] were 259.29 Iverson] Ireson 259.38 " History < . . .> Conflict,"] "< > -." 260. 17 North at the time were J North were *260.18 Rochester. I] Rochester. at the time. I 260.26 make] BI: save 261.14 SumterJ BI: Sumpter 262. 9 Erring] B 1: erring 262.19 " with] "262.21 Fremont] Freemon! 265.6 Sumter] BI : Sumpter 265.31 'will < .. .> better] BI: " - < ... > 266.19 "Massachusetts J "267 .30 were the beginnings] was -

LIST OF EMENDATIONS

beginning 267.33 first two] B 1: two first 268.10 worthy of the] worthy the 268.29 Grn1u;1] BI: GrnRCi E 269.16 The] BI: the 270.17 Wait] BI: wait 270.23 arise'1] BI: - 1 270.25 their] its 270.26 their] its 270.28 "You] " 270.34 "With) " 270.35 "FRrntRICK Dm<,L\SS. J " Dou<iLAs"" *271.5- 6 blood." i ~i My] blood." ! <centered: > THE BLACK MAN AT THE WHITE HO USE . ~- \1y 271.21 Ne, ertheless J BI: Ne, etheless 272.16 prisoner) pri soners 272.20 bubble reputation ) BI: bauble-273.6- 7 to: thatj Bl: - That 273.10 could not butj could but 273 .26 anybody] BI : any body 273 .32 anybodyj BI: any body 274 .2-3 sent to me at Rochester] sent me to Rochester 274.29 Fremont] Fremont *274.35 state J war 275 .2- 3 during almost two ] during more than two 275 . 16 defeat. And J BI: -.----276.5 nor] or 276.13 Dickenson J Dickinson 276.19 millions] mill,on 277 . 15 lo w] Bl: law 278.6 they] it 278 .8 moderate. cautious.] HI: - 1 cauti ons 1 *278 .28 ave . and 45th st.. and scarce) ave .. and scarce 279.7 Anti-slavery Society anniversary] Anti-slavery anniversary 279.8 anti-draft.] - --

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279.28 Gen.] Bl ;-" 280.35 ever] Bl; even 280.38 organizing of a] organizing a 281. I6 persisted. He] -" he 281.3 I Soldiers'] BI;-" 282.15 Fremont] Fremont 282.39- 283 . 1 rebellion , for one that 11ould not do so. I) rebellion. I *283.24 had welcomed] BX I; had conquered his race-prejudice, if ever he had any: at any rate, he had welcomed 28.1J 7 -38 emancipator) BI: Emancipator 284.23 he J 81: it 2X-IJ3 asked] asks 2X6 .19dite] 81:clite 2x~ \J it] - ? 2X.., _28 equal meeting] BX I: equal in rne.:t i ng 2XXJ I had sided] FA: had resisted the anti-sla\ery current of his state. had mkd *2XX.34 289.22 party. ~ When < . .. > the right J 1:2: party. : •· During the war he 11 as too good to be a rebel sympathizer. and nnt quite good enough to become as \\ilson was- -a power in the union cwse. \\"ilson had risen to eminence hy his derntion to liberal ideas. while \\ mthrnp had sunken almost to obscurity frum his indifference to such ideas. But nuw either himself or his friends. most likely the latter. thought that the time had C\ll11e when some word implying interest 111 the loyal cause should fall from his lips. It 1\as not so much the need of the union. as the need of himself. that he should speak: the time when the union needed him. and all others. was when the sla\e-holding rebellion raised its defiant head. not when as now. that head 11 as in the dust and ashes of defeat and 1

destruction. But the beloved Winthrop, the proud representative of what Daniel Webster once called the "solid men of Boston," had great need to speak now. It had been no fault of the loyal cause that he had not spoken sooner. Its "gates like those of Heaven stood open night and day." If he did not come in, it was his own fault. Regiment after regiment, brigade after brigade, had passed over Boston Common to endure the perils and hardships of war; Governor Andrew had poured out his soul , and exhausted his wonderful powers of speech in patriotic \vords to the brave departing sons of old Massachusetts, and a word from Winthrop would have gone far to nef\ e up those young soldiers going forth to lay down their lives for the life of the republic : but no word came. Yet now in the last quarter of the eleventh hour. when the days' work was nearly done. Robert C. Winthrop was seen standing upon the same platform with the veteran Henry Wilson. He was there in all his native grace and dignity, elegantly and aristocratically clothed, hi s whole bearing marking his social sphere as widely different from many present. Happy for his good name, and for those who shall bear it when he is no longer among the living. that he was found even at the last hour, in the right 289.33 affected] BI: effected *290.5- 6 The assassination] EI: The recently attempted assassination 290.18- 19 of Northern Virginia] of Virginia 290.30 and happiness] BI: and and happiness 290.32 indulged in them] BI: indulged them

Line-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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[left column] 90.33 wood-colored 102.22 over-ruling 103.22 knock-down 106.28 hiding-place 109.16 back-slidden 113.30 good-natured 114.19 ball-playing 115.38 slaveholders 117.4-5 field-hand 119.15 class-leader 120.35 slaveholder 122.20 over-ambitious 123.5 well-trained 127.8- 9 snow-capped 130.9 fellow-slaves 131.28 mild-spoken 131.34 horseback 139.23 negro-traders 142.6 slaveholders 142.7 ship-yard 142.15 ship-yard 143.11 hand-spike 144.17 manly-hearted 148.16 lookout 150.5 ship-yard 150.9 camp-ground 151.20 drawbridge 159.21 railroad 160.18 commonwealth 161.24 slaveholders 162.8 self-shutting 162.9 wringing-machines 171.20 co-operated 172.34 co-workers 174.31 Railroad 177.12 anti-slavery 178.32 cab-men 179.4 well-known 180.22 forecastle-deck 184.6-7 turning-point 188.25 great-hearted 193.16 anti-slavery

[right column] 195.1-2 long-neglected 196.30 anti-slavery 197.2 anti-slavery 197.9 street-song 202.21 Underground 206.6 non-voting 208.13 railroad 211.14 water-powers 217.21 standard-bearer 219.29 up-holders 222.3 coachmen 223.12 boarding-schools 228.9 anti-slavery 230.30 standard-bearer 230.38 rail-splitter 231.34 slaveholding 233.11-12 co-operating 235.29 battle-ground 237.20 well-mounted 237.27 free-state 238.14 slaveholding 244.5 task-masters 246.3 hardships 248.17 self-respect 248.37 warm-hearted 251.24 slave-hounds 258.30 pro-slavery 264.38-39 star-spangled 274.33 anti-slavery 282.5 self-made 284.37 bondman's 288.15 life-giving 292.15 fellow-workers 295.23 self-protection 296.22 freedman 301.22 freedmen 309.23 bedside 317.33 hardly-earned 331.37 pre-eminently 332.6 semi-barbarous 340.12-13 slaveholders 345.14 slaveholders

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[left column]

345.25 handcuffs 347.1-2 grandmother 352.32-33 many-colored 356.30-31 Anti-Slavery 356.32 slavery-polluted 368.4-5 anti-slavery 369.6 anti-slavery 369.18 week-day 369.38 anti-slavery 373.13 self-respect 388.1 Afro-American 414.37 kind-hearted 416.25 stronghold

[right column] 417.26-27 mid-winter 430.33 overflowed 434.15 Anti-Slavery 451.35-36 well-known 452.27 non-success 460.35 time-honored 464.1 foot-steps 467.38 backwoodsman 468.5-6 well-founded 471.36 dwelling-place 476.30 freedmen 480.24 self-sustaining

LINE-END HYPHENATION IN THE YALE EDITION

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Line-End Hyphenation in the Yale Edition

In quoting from the Yale edition, the only line-end hyphens that should be retained are the following:

[left column] 24.3-4 seine-hauling 30.16-17 Anglo-Saxon 33.17-18 hen-houses 43.25-26 business-like 45.28-29 soul-crushing 46.6-7 over-sleeping 48.7- 8 scarcely-worn 48.11-12 hunger-smitten 57.3-4 sack-cloth 57.29- 30 black-birds 58.32-33 shooting-crackers 59.3-4 quarter-deck 61.11-12 half-brother 62.37- 38 anti-slavery 73.4-5 ship-yard 73.18- 19 play-grounds 73.26-27 copy-books 80.30-31 ship-building 83.38-39 camp-meetings 84.10-11 kneeling-place 92.20- 21 short-necked 96.10-11 semi-lying 102.24-25 bare-footed 106.18- 19 kind-hearted 107.11-12 ash-cake 109.22- 23 stable-floor 117.4-5 field-hand 118.32-33 Sabbath-school 119.11-12 class-leader 119.13-14 mob-like 120.5-6 Sabbath-school 123.7- 8 fellow-servants 126.13-14 grave-yard 127.8-9 snow-capped 131.19-20 ill-omened

[right column] 138.21-22 out-looking 140.20-21 of-war 156.37-38 twewnty-four 159.8- 9 co-worker 175.2-3 first-class 179.35-36 kind-hearted 180.16-17 Anti-Slavery 181.24-25 forecastle-deck 183.7-8 well-matched 184.6-7 turning-point 187.17-18 kind-hearted 188.17-18 eighty-seventh 192.7-8 fellow-citizens 195.1-2 long-neglected 198.20-21 blood-stained 199.36-37 anti-slavery 215.22-23 anti-slavery 215.38-39 Anti-slavery 218.27-28 empty-handed 227.18-19 wide-spread 230.4-5 anti-slavery 233.11-12 co-operating 256.17-18 peace-loving 262.34-35 anti-slavery 264.38-39 star-spangeled 277.25-26 one-spur 290.30-31 over-worked 327.5-6 ex-Secretary 331.6-7 carpet-bagger 331.30-31 three-quarters 344.13-14 Burial-ground 345.25-26 auction-block 346.16-17 son-in 355.25-26 bar-room 356.30-31 Anti-Slavery

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[left column] 356.36-37 bar-keeper 359.17-18 carpet-bag 368.4-5 anti-slavery 368.28-29 Anti-Slavery 371.2-3 one-half 373.29-30 self-respect

[right column] 383.25-26 self-indulgent 417.26-27 mid-winter 423.2-3 health-giving 442.37-38 Rear-Admiral 451.35-36 well-known 453.15-16 Rear-Admiral

550 DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY

EVENTFUL LIFE: I WITH I AN INTRODUCTION BY MR. GEORGE: L. RUFFIN, I OF BOSTON. I [single rule] I HARTFORD, CONN.: I PARK PUBLISHING CO. I GEO. M. REWELL & CO., CLEVELAND, O.; J. S. GOODMAN & CO., CHICAGO, ILL.; I PHILLIPS & HUNT, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. I 1882.'.

Copyright page: Three lines, 'COPYRIGHTED BY I PARK PUBLISHING CO., I 1881.'

Pagination: [1-5] 6-15 [16] (16a- 16b] 17-36 [37-38] 39-70 [71-72] 73-78 [7980] 81-94 [95-96] 97-166 [167-68] 169-208 [209-10] 211-42 [243-44] 245-84 [285-86] 287-334 [335-36] 337-402 [403-04] 405-60 [461-62] 463-96 [497-98] 499-502 [503-04] 505-20 [521-22] 523-44 [545-46 ] 547-98 [599-600] 601-18 [619-20]. As in the first American edition. page numbers appear within parentheses on the first pages of chapters. As was not the case with the first American edition until the third printing, the page count includes the 17 plates (recto and verso). For the placement of the tipped-in plates, see the inferred page numbers (within brackets) beginning with pp. [37- 38] and ending with pp. [599-600J. The exception is the plate inserted between pp. 254 and 255, which is not included in the page count. Also not included in the pagination is the integral ninth leaf or the first gathering, pp. [16 a-b], on the recto of which appears the list of illustrations.

Collation: [1]122-2412 256. Signed on first leaf recto only, except in gathering 1312: which is also signed on the fifth leaf recto. Frontispiece portrait and 17 plates tippedin.

Contents: [1]: blank; [2]: frontispiece portrait; [3]: title page; [4]: copyright page; [5] 6-15: 'CONTENTS'; [16]: blank; [16a]: list or illustrations (18, including frontispiece portrait, are listed and are the same as those appearing in the first American edition); [16b]: blank; 17-24: 'INTRODUCTION' by George L. Rutlin; 25-618: text; [619-20]: blank.

Typography and Paper: 6 5/16" (6 1/32") X 3 9 16" (p. 229). 35 lines per page (but 36 lines on p. 499). Running heads: as in the first American edition, they are uniform, recto and verso, for 'INTRODUCTION.' and 'CONTENTS.'; thereafter, except on the first pages of each chapter, the running head of each page is unique and glosses the text. White wove paper, .005" thick. sheets bulk 1 17 32".

Binding A: As in the first printing of the first American edition. Edges trimmed, 7 27/32" X 5 1/8". White wove end papers. See Note.

Binding B: Pasted on the rebound copies at the Butler Library and the Schomburg Center are portions of the spine and front of the original binding: black- and goldstamped olive brown calico. For a full description, sec Binding. Second American Edition, Second Printing. Third Issue (B2c).

Locations: Binding A: McElrath Collection: Frederick Douglass Papers Editiorial Office; Mabree Library, Sterling College. Binding B: Butler Library, Columbia University. Rebound: Butler Library, Columbia University; Schomburg Center.

DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY 551

Note: The copy of the salesman's dummy at the Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester, includes the same 1882 title page. At its back in the salesperson's hand are listed the types of bindings requested by those who have placed orders. They are cloth or leather with trimmed edges that are gilded, 'sprinkled' or plain.

B2a. Second American Edition, Second Printing, First Issue Hartford, Conn.: Park Publishing Company, et al., 1882.

The same as the first printing, binding B, except for the title page, line 3, 'DOUGLASS' (no comma after 'DOUGLASS'); signed only on the first leaf in gathering 13. White wove paper varies in thickness from .004+" to .005 +", sheets bulk 1 1/2". Mispagination of pp. [1] through 17 is uncorrected. The title leaf is integral.

Locations: Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester; Green Library, Stanford University. Rebound; Green Library, Stanford University; Schomburg Center.

B2b. Second American Edition, Second Printing, Second Issue Hartford, Conn.: Park Publishing Company, et al., 1884

Same as the first issue except for the title page, lines 28-30: 'HAMILTON REWELL & CO., CLEVELAND, O., WALKER & DAIGNEAU, BATTLE I CREEK, MICH.; PHILLIPS &amp, HUNT. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 1884.'. The title leaf is a cancel and identical to the integral title leaf in the fourth printing.

location: Schomburg Center (rebound).

B2c. Second American Edition, Second Printing, Third Issue Hartford, Conn.: Park Publishing Company, 1888

Same as the second issue except for title page, 28 lines instead of 30, lines 26-28; HARTFORD. CONN.; PARK PUBLISHING CO. I 1888.'. The title leaf is a cancel.

Binding B: Olive brown calico blind-, black-, and gold-stamped. Front: blackstamped except as noted, a floral figure within each corner of a double-rule box; four lines at center, ' LIFE AND TIMES I OF ['F' within 'O'] I [gold-stamped female and eagle figures] I FREDERICK DOUGLASS'. Back: blank-stamped doublerule box with floral figures inside the upper and lower right corners, at center the same female and eagle figures as on the front. Spine: 11 gold-stamped lines, '[single row of crosses and stars] I LIFE I AND I TIMES I OF I FRED'K DOUGLASS [single rule dotted at both ends] I ILLUSTRATED I PPC [letters intertwined] I [single row of crosses and stars]'. Edges trimmed. 7 27/32" X 5". White wove end papers at front and back.

Location: Library Company of Philadelphia.

B3a. Second American Edition, Third Printing, First Issue