THE FREDERICK DOUGLASS PAPERS

Series Two: Autobiographical Writings
VOLUME 3: LIFE AND TIMES OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Frederick Douglass, ca . 1879
Courtesy National Archives. photo no. 558770

THE
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
PAPERS
Series Two: Autobiographical Writings
Volume 3: Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Book 2: Historical Annotations

John R. McKivigan , Editor

Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., Textual Editor
Jesse S. Crisler, Textual Editor

Robin L. Condon. Managing Editor
L. Diane Barnes. Associate Editor
James A. Hanna. Whitney R. Smith. Assistant Editors
Mark G. Emerson. Peter P. Hinks, Heather L. Kaufman,
Jeremiah .Nyhuis, Editorial Assistants
Hannah Cox. Geoffrey Gagen, Christine McNulty,
Scott Philotoff, Jarret Ruminski.
Research Assistants

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2012940612
ISBN 978-0-300-17634-6 (2-book set)
ISBN 978-0-300-18948-3 (Book 2)
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Contents

Book I
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction to Volume Three
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
First Part
Second Part
Third Part
Appendix
Editorial Apparatus
Textual Afterword
Textual Notes
List or Editorial Emendations
Line-End Hyphenation
Historical Collation
Descriptive Bibliography
The Park Publishing Company Illustrations
Index

Book 2
Abbrevations to Book 2
Historical Annotation
Introductions to the English Edition
Readers Responses. 1881-93

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Abbreviations
ACAB Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography
AHR American Historical Review
ANB American National Biography
ASB Anti-Slavery Bugle
BDUSC Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
BFASR British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Reporter
CH Church History
ChR Christian Recorder
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
FAAH Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895
FD Fredrick Douglass
FDP Fredrick Douglass'Paper
JAH Journal of American History
JISHS Journal of Illinois State Historical Society
JNH Journal of Negro History
JSH Journal of Southern History
Lib. Liberator
MdAA Hall of Records Comission. Annapolis. Md
MdHi Maryland Historical Society
MdHM Maryland Historical Magazine
MdTCH Talbot County, Maryland, Courthouse
MVHR Mississippi Valley Historical Review
NAR North American Review
NASS National Anti-Slavery Standard
NAW Notable American Women
NCAB National Cyclopardia of American Biography
NEQ New England Quarterly
NHB Negro History Bulletin
NNE New National Era
NS North Star
PaF Pennsylvania Freeman
RH Rochester History

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