Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass : An American Slave

by Douglass, Frederick; Andrews, William L.; McFeely, William S.

• ISBN13: 9780393969665
• ISBN10: 0393969665
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-12-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Upon its publication in 1845, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself became an immediate best-seller.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
The Text of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself	12	(71)
Preface by William Lloyd Garrison
Letter from Wendell Phillips
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Contexts	83	(50)
Margaret Fuller . [Review of the Narrative](New York Tribune, June 10, 1845)	83	(2)
Anonymous . [Review of the Narrative](Spectator, November 29, 1845)	85	(3)
A. C. C. Thompson . [Letter from a Former Slaveholder] (Liberator, December 12, 1845)	88	(3)
Frederick Douglass . [Reply to Thompson's Letter] (Liberator, February 27, 1846)	91	(5)
. Preface to the Second Dublin Edition of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1846)	96	(2)
Douglass on His Mother and His Father (1845, 1855, 1892)	98	(6)
Douglass on His Escape from Slavery (1882>	104	(7)
. I Am Here to Spread Light on American Slavery (October 14, 1845)	111	(5)
. What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (July 5, 1852)	116	(11)
James Monroe Gregory . From Frederick Douglass, the Orator (1893)	127	(3)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton . [Diary Entry on Douglass's Death] (February 21, 1895)	130	(3)
Criticism	133	(52)
William S. McFeely . [The Writing of the Narrative]	133	(2)
Peter Ripley . The Autobiographical Writings of Frederick Douglass	135	(11)
Robert B. Stepto . Narration, Authentication, and Authorial Control in Frederick Douglass' Narrative of 1845	146	(11)
William L. Andrews . [Frederick Douglass and the American Jeremaid]	157	(9)
Houston A. Baker, Jr. . [The Economics of Douglass's Narrative]	166	(66)
Deborah E. McDowell . In the First Place: Making Frederick Douglass and the Afro-American Narrative Tradition	172	(13)
Frederick Douglass: A Chronology	185	(2)
Selected Bibliography	187