Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – Frederick Douglass

Resources:

• Brief biography of Frederick Douglass from Biography.com

• Frederick Douglass page from History.com

• Frederick Douglass entry from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

• Frederick Douglass: A Resource Guide from Library of Congress

• National Park Service site - includes a virtual tour

• Letter written by Frederick Douglass to Hugh Auld, 1857 from The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

• Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight from Simon & Schuster

  • AUDIOBOOK: Read by Forest Whitaker from Spotify

  • PODCAST: "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" from Required Reading

  • PODCAST: "Frederick Douglass" from BBC Radio's In Our Time

  • PODCAST: "300 Frederick Douglass" and "311 Frederick Douglass Learns to Read" from The History of Literature

  • VIDEO: A reading of "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" from American Writers Museum

  • VIDEO: “Frederick Douglass: Literacy, Libraries and Liberation," a LIVE from the NYPL event

  • VIDEO: "David Blight on Frederick Douglass (Lincoln Log Podcast)" from Abraham Lincoln Association

Online Articles:

• • "The 100 best nonfiction books: No 68 – Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845)" by Robert McCrum for The Guardian

  • "Frederick Douglass On How Slave Owners Used Food As A Weapon Of Control" by Nina Martyris for NPR

  • "Frederick Douglass’s ‘amazing job’ started with his first book" by Ron Charles for The Washington Post

  • "Frederick Douglass’s Emotional Meeting With the Man Who Enslaved Him" by Erin Blakemore for History

  • "Frederick Douglass’s Original New York Times Obituary From 1895" 

  • "The Prophetic Pragmatism of Frederick Douglass" by Adam Gopnik for The New Yorker

Critical Articles: 

• "'Bold defiance took its place'—'Respect' and Self-Making in 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave'" - Vince Brewton

• "Born into Slavery: Echoes and Legacies" - Valerie Smith

• "Canonicity, Genre, and the Politics of Editing: How We Read Frederick Douglass" - Rachel A. Blumenthal

• "Identity in the Autobiographies" - Robert S. Levine

• "The Politics of Language in Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of an American Slave" - Lisa Yun Lee

• "The Road to 'I'dentity in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" - James Thomas Mullane

• "Shaking the Foundation: Liberation Theology in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" - Sharon Carson

• "'A Slave in Form but Not in Fact': Subversive Humor and the Rhetoric of Irony in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" - Mark K. Burns