Frederick Douglass Part 3

Mr. Dougla.s.s's own memories are embraced in three separate volumes, published at wide intervals, each succeeding volume being a revision of the preceding work, with various additions and omissions.

I. Narrative of Frederick Dougla.s.s. Writen by himself. (Boston, 1845: The American Anti-slavery Society.) Numerous editions of this book were printed, and translations published in Germany and in France.

II. My Bondage and My Freedom. (New York and Auburn, 1855: Miller, Orton & Mulligan.) This second of Mr. Dougla.s.s's autobiographies has a well-written and appreciative introduction by James M'Cune Smith and an appendix containing extracts from Mr. Dougla.s.s's speeches on slavery.

III. Recollections of the Anti-slavery Conflict. By Samuel J. May. (Boston, 1869: Fields, Osgood & Co.) Collected papers by a veteran abolitionist; contains an appreciative sketch of Dougla.s.s.

IV. History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America. By Henry Wilson. 3 vols. (Boston, 1872: James R. Osgood & Co.) The author presents an admirable summary of the life and mission of Mr. Dougla.s.s.

V. William Lloyd Garrison and His Times. By Oliver Johnson. (Boston, 1881: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.) One of the best works on the anti-slavery agitation, by one of its most able, active and courageous promoters.

VI. Century Magazine, November, 1881, "My Escape from Slavery." By Frederick Dougla.s.s.

VII. Life and Times of Frederick Dougla.s.s. Written by himself.

(Hartford, 1882: Park Publis.h.i.+ng Company.) VIII. History of the Negro Race in America. By George W. Williams. 2 vols. (New York, 1883: G. P. Putnam's Sons.) This exhaustive and scholarly work contains an estimate of Dougla.s.s's career by an Afro-American author.

IX. The Life and Times of Wendell Phillips. By George Lowell Austin. (Boston, 1888: Lee & Shepard.) Contains a eulogy on Wendell Phillips by Mr. Dougla.s.s.

X. Life and Times of William Lloyd Garrison. By his children. 4 vols. (New York, 1889: The Century Company. London: T. Fisher Unwin.) Here are many details of the public services of Mr. Dougla.s.s,-his relations to the Garrisonian abolitionists, his political views, his oratory, etc.

XI. The Cosmopolitan, August, 1889. "Reminiscences." By Frederick Dougla.s.s. In "The Great Agitation Series."

XII. Frederick Dougla.s.s, the Colored Orator. By Frederick May Holland. (New York, 1891: Funk & Wagnalls.) This volume is one of the series of "American Reformers," and with the exception of his own books is the only comprehensive life of Dougla.s.s so far published. It contains selections from many of his best speeches and a full list of his numerous publications.

XIII. Our Day, August, 1894. "Frederick Dougla.s.s as Orator and Reformer." By W. L. Garrison [(1838-1909), the first son and namesake of the Abolitionist leader (1805-1879)].

XIV. The Underground Railroad. By William H. Siebert. With an introduction by Albert Bushnell Hart. (New York, 1898: The Macmillan Company.) Contains many references to Mr. Dougla.s.s's services in aiding the escape of fugitive slaves.