Works by Douglass
- “A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave” (1845)
- “My Bondage and My Freedom” (1855)
- “Life and Times of Frederick Douglass” (1881, revised 1892)
- “The Heroic Slave,” a novella (1852)
- “The Portable Frederick Douglass,” a collection edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and John Stauffer
(All works available through the Monroe County Library System and through major booksellers)
Works by others
- Victoria Sandwick Schmitt’s “Rochester’s Frederick Douglass” was a critical help in researching background for the “Douglass’s Rochester” story. Find it, along with PDF versions of Douglass’s works, online at libraryweb.org/rochimag/roads/narratives.htm.
- “An Authentic History of the Douglass Monument” by J.W. Thompson (available through the Monroe County Library System and online here)
- “Frederick & Anna Douglass in Rochester, New York” by Rose O’Keefe (available through the Monroe County Library System and through major booksellers)
- “North Star Country” by Milton Sernett (available through the Monroe County Library system and online through amazon.com)
- “My Mother as I Recall Her,” a speech by Rosetta Douglass Sprague (available through the Library of Congress online here)
“Women in the World of Frederick Douglass” by Leigh Fought
(Oxford University Press, 2017)
Local library URL:
https://catalogplus.libraryweb.org/?section=resource&resourceid=1006287959
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