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You will find here links to pages with articles, as well as links to web resources, Google Books, time lines, and a host of other pieces of information that start to put Douglass' speech in a variety of contexts: other works by Douglass, other abolitionist writings, speeches, the 1850s, the history of slavery and abolition, legal history about manhood and citizenship, scholarly treatments of Douglass and his works, the history of affirmative action. This resource makes no pretense whatsoever at completeness. Libraries full have been written on most of these topics. However, never before has so much primary material been available to so many. We hope you will find a tour through this page rewarding.

• Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Foreword by Wendell Phillips. 1845: Boston, The Antislavery Office. 1846 edition, scanned and reformatted by Forgotten Books
• Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom (New York: Miller, Orton, & Company, 1857)
• Frederick Douglass Papers Edition
• Frederick Douglass Papers, Library of Congress

• Charles W. Chesnutt. Frederick Douglass. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1899
• Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) Timeline

• New Bedford Historical Society
• Douglass' speaking itinerary for 1839 to 1846 includes many Massachusetts towns
• Mass Moment: Frederick Douglass First Addresses White Audience

• Slavery and the Fourth of July
  
• Reading Frederick Douglass during the Presidency of Barack Obama, Mass Humanities Newsletter, Spring 2009
• Public Speaking in an Outspoken Age This section of the E Pluribus Unum Project: America in the 1770s, 1850s, and 1920s, offers a discussion of the role oratory played in the debate over slavery.

• Abraham Lincoln, "Emancipation Proclamation," January 1, 1863
• Nast, Thomas, "The Ignorant Vote—Honors are Easy" (Cartoon), Harper's Weekly, v. 20. N. 1041. New York: December 9, 1876
• "The Mob in New York," New York Times, v. 12, 15 July, 1863

• The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship This project of the American Memory initiative showcases more than 240 items, including books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings from the African American collections of the Library of Congress.
• Library of Congress: Today in History, September 3.  "On Monday, the third day of September, 1838, in accordance with my resolution, I bade farewell to the city of Baltimore, and to that slavery which had been my abhorrence from childhood." An informative essay that is heavily linked to Douglass resources.
• American Abolitionism Developed by faculty members and graduate students at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, this project offers a number of resources for those interested in studying the American Abolitionist Movement.
• "Been Here So Long": Selections from the WPA American Slave Narratives
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project  Born in Slavery contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves.
• The Dred Scott Decision and its Bitter Legacy an online exhibition from the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History
• The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University, is dedicated to the investigation and dissemination of knowledge concerning all aspects of chattel slavery and its destruction.

• Claudia Anderson, "Parallel Lives: Frederick Douglass, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and the Flight to Freedom," The Weekly Standard 06/23/2008 (Volume 013, Issue 39)