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Andrews, William L. To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986.

, ed. Critical Essays on Frederick Douglass. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1991.

, ed. The Oxford Frederick Douglass Reader. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Blassingame, John W., ed. The Frederick Douglass Papers. Series 1: Speeches, Debates, and Interviews. 5 vols. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1979-1982.

, ed. The Frederick Douglass Papers. Series 2: Autobiographical Writings. Volume 1: Narrative. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999.

Blassingame, John W., John R. McKivigan, and Peter P Hinks, eds. The Frederick Douglass Papers. Series 2: Autobiographical Writings. Volume 2: My Bondage and My Freedom. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003.

Chesnutt, Charles W. Frederick Douglass. Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1899.

Davis, Charles T., and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds. The Slave’s Narrative. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Diedrich, Maria. Love across Color Lines: Ottilie Assing and Frederick Douglass. New York: Hill and Wang, 1999.

Douglass, Frederick. Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life; My Bondage and My Freedom; Life and Times. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Library of America, 1994.

Foner, Philip S. Frederick Douglass, a Biography. New York: Citadel Press, 1964.

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—, ed. The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass. 5 vols. New York: International Publishers, 1950-1975.

Foster, Frances Smith. Witnessing Slavery: The Development of Antebellum Slave Narratives. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979.

Huggins, Nathan Irvin. Slave and Citizen: The Life of Frederick Douglass. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980.

Lawson, Bill E., and Frank M. Kirkland, eds. Frederick Douglass: A Critical Reader. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1999.

Levine, Robert S. Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Martin, Waldo E., Jr. The Mind of Frederick Douglass. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984.

McFeely, William S. Frederick Douglass. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.

Preston, Dickson J. Young Frederick Douglass: The Maryland Years. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.

Quarles, Benjamin. Frederick Douglass. 1948. Reprint: New York: Atheneum, 1968.

Stepto, Robert B. From Behind the Veil: A Study of Afro-American Narrative. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1979.

Sundquist, Eric. J. To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1993.

—, ed. Frederick Douglass: New Literary and Historical Essays. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Walker, Peter F. Moral Choices: Memory, Desire, and Imagination in Nineteenth-century American Abolition. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978.

 

Other Works Cited in the Introduction

 

Andrews, William L. “Introduction to the 1987 Edition.” In Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom, edited by William L. Andrews. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.

Blassingame, John W. “Introduction to Volume Two,” in The Frederick Douglass Papers. Series 2: Autobiographical Writings. Volume 2: My Bondage and My Freedom, edited by John W. Blassingame, John R. McKivigan, and Peter P. Hinks. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003.

O’Meally, Robert. “Introduction.” In Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. New York: Barnes and Noble Classics, 2003.

Sekora, John. “ ‘Mr. Editor, If You Please’: Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom, and the End of the Abolitionist Imprint.” Callaloo 17:2 (1994).

Smith, John David. “Introduction: An American Book, for Americans, in the Fullest Sense of the Idea.” In Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom, edited by John David Smith. New York: Penguin, 2003.