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The first book to explore Frederick Douglass's years in Washington, DC. Published by the History Press in October 2012.
Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C.: The Lion of Anacostia
Dr. Frederick (Bailey) Douglass & Kojo Nnamdi — “International Men of Consequence” [Transcript of interview w/ Dr. Ka’mal McClarin & John Muller on The Kojo Nnamdi Show, WAMU 88.5 FM, July 3, 2018]
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Blogroll
- "Frederick Douglass, Haiti, and Diplomacy" Black Perspectives, Feb 2017.
- "Frederick Douglass: A Life in Documents" (2018; Gilder Lehrman Collection) [PDF]
- "Killing for Freedom", New York Review of Books [12.3.1970]
- "Modern Egypt" [FD Papers]
- "Nearer, My God, to Thee"
- "New Washington" Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Feb 1875 by George Alfred Townsend
- "Our Negro Schools" Harper's, September 1874
- "Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, 1847-1865" by Ward Hill Lamon [Google Books]
- "The Church in the Southern Black Community" (Documenting the American South)
- "The News Boys are Worth Saving," Frank Leslie’s Weekly. December 29, 1855
- "The twentieth century Union League directory. A compilation of the efforts of the Colored people of Washington for social betterment"
- "True Pictures": Frederick Douglass on the Promise of Photography Gregory Fried, Suffolk University
- "Washington News", Harper's, January 1874 Ben Poorley Poore
- (Google Book) In Memoriam: Frederick Douglass
- ** City of Rochester – Frederick Douglass Bicentennial **
- 1892 Washington City Directory (Google Books)
- A HISTORICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT IN THE WASHINGTON, D.C., METROPOLITAN AREA [SAH.org]
- A HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS OF DELAWARE AND MARYLAND'S EASTERN SHORE
- A Lecture on Our National Capital
- Abe Lincoln in Pop Culture
- African American Newspapers in Print and Microformat: Chronological Index
- Alexandria During The Civil War: First Person Accounts (Diaries of Julia Wilbur, Relief Worker)
- American Antiquarian Society: African-American History Resources
- American Historical Association Blog
- An Address to the Colored People of the United States (1848)
- Anacostia Community Museum Library
- Anacostia Neighborhood Investment Fund Plan
- Anna Murray Douglass (Archives of Maryland)
- Annals of Baltimore (1824)
- Archives of Boyd's City Directory of the District of Columbia
- Art Institute of Chicago: Frederick Douglass Chooses His Moment
- Audio _ Book Talk at Politics & Prose (10.13.2012)
- “Slaveholders and their Northern Abettors”: Frederick Douglass’s Long Constitutional Journey [Scotland]
- Baltimore Heritage: Caulker's Houses
- Banneker-Douglass Museum (Annapolis, Maryland)
- Benjamin Tucker Tanner
- Bibliography of Capitol Hill and D.C. History
- Birth of a Star—Washington, D.C.’s Evening Star [Readex Blog]
- Black Baltimore: John W. Locks (1819 – 1884)
- Black Press Research Collective
- Books _ 1868 _ Behind the Scenes, Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House; Keckley, Elizabeth
- Boundary Stones – WETA local history blog
- Boyd's City Directory of Washington – 1906 [Google Books]
- Brief info on Thomas J. Dorsey
- Brooklyn Daily Eagle
- Brown University Library: Martha Waldo Greene and Frederick Sherman Collection of Frederick Douglass papers
- Buying Frederick Douglass’s freedom, 1846
- Bytes of History
- C-Span American Artifacts: Frederick Douglass House
- C-SPAN at Cedar Hill, 2001
- California Digital Newspaper Collection
- Catherine Impey of Street, Somerset, and her radical anti-racist newspaper
- Chicago Tribune: Who needs another Lincoln biography? We do — and here's why.
- Chicken Bones: Frederick Douglass and the Progress of Photography
- Christian Recorder
- City of Rochester — FREDERICK DOUGLASS BICENTENNIAL
- Collection of Frederick Douglass' Monthly's, booklets, and other materials, circa 1850-1894
- Complicated Civil Rights Figure Is Subject of USC Prof’s Biography
- Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection
- DAVID RUGGLES: A RADICAL BLACK ABOLITIONIST AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN NEW YORK CITY (THE JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN SERIES IN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE)
- DC Archives
- DC Library Databases
- DC Public Library catalog – "Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C."
- Digitized Baltimore City Directores
- Documenting the American South – Frederick Douglass: The Colored Orator (1895 Edition) _ Frederic May Holland
- Documenting the South: Selected Readings Related to Frederick Douglass, 1818-1895
- Du Bois in Paris – Exposition Universelle, 1900
- DuBois
- Educating Freedmen During Reconstruction in Fairfax County
- Emancipation Hall – US Capitol Visitor Center [PDF]
- Evening Star, 1869.6.15, p. 2
- Evening Star, 1869.6.30, p. 4, "Mr. Clapp and the Buffalo Printers"
- Evening Star, 1873.10.9, p. 4 "An Altercation Between Journalists"
- Evening Star, 1874.1.10, p. 8 "The Suits of L.H. Douglass"
- Evening Star, 1874.3.10, p. 4 "The New National Era Embroglio"
- Evening Star, 1874.5.14, p. 3
- Evening Star, 1874.9.15, p. 3
- Evening Star, 21 Jan. 1879: "Miner School"
- Family Tree
- FDNHS – Long-Range Interpretive Plan
- Frederick County, Maryland Marriage Licenses – 1865-1886
- Frederick Douglass American Hero
- Frederick Douglass and Black Barbers
- Frederick Douglass Birthplace – Talbot County
- Frederick Douglass Collection at Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for American History
- Frederick Douglass Digital Edition (From the Page)
- Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland
- Frederick Douglass letters, 1882-1890 | Amistad Research Center
- Frederick Douglass LOC Correspondence Index
- Frederick Douglass Memorial & Historical Association
- Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
- Frederick Douglass Papers – Digital Edition
- FREDERICK DOUGLASS PAPERS – University of Rochester – Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation
- Frederick Douglass Papers Edition – General Bibliography
- Frederick Douglass __ Talbot County Department of Economic Development and Tourism
- Frederick Douglass' Rochester (Rochester City Paper)
- Frederick Douglass's Diary (Santo Domingo 1871)
- Frederick Douglass's Women: In Progress
- Frederick Douglass: American (Blog)
- Frederick Douglass’s Irish Liberty (NY Times)
- Freed slave who penned sarcastic letter to old master after he was asked back to farm pictured for first time
- Freedmen's Bureau Letter from the Secretary of War (1886)
- FREEDOM BOUND: RUNAWAYS OF THE CHESAPEAKE
- From the reunions of Reconstruction to the reconstruction of reunions [Rutgers University, Krystal Denise Frazier]
- General Catalogue of the University of Rochester, 1850-1911
- George Henry White
- Google Books – Booker T. Washington
- Google Books – Charles Chestnutt
- Google Books – William Lloyd Garrison (1911) by Lindsay Swift
- Google Books — James Monroe Gregory
- Google Books – Frederick Douglass: The Colored Orator (1891) _ Frederic May Holland
- Google Books: Abolition and the Press: The Moral Struggle Against Slavery
- Google Books: History of Talbot County, Maryland, 1661-1861, Volume 2
- Google Books: John Mercer Langston and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1829-65
- Google Books: Land of Legendary Lore: Sketches of Romance and Reality on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake (1898)
- Google Books: The Frederick Douglass Papers: 1842-1852
- Google Books: The Origins of African American Literature, 1680-1865
- Greedy Reads — Fell's Point Independent Bookstore
- Harper's Weekly, 8 December, 1883, "The Freedmen"
- Harvard Gazette: How the Black Church saved Black America
- Historic District Brochures – DC Historic Preservation Office
- Historic Wanderings
- HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY: A driving tour of historic Richmond, NY
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- Howard University MSRC _ Finding Aid _ FD Papers [PDF]
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- http://www.ingersoll.wash.org/index.php
- Indianapolis Freeman (Jul 21, 1888 – Dec 25, 1915)
- Internet Archive – Douglass materials
- JBHE Chronology of Major Landmarks in the Progress of African Americans in Higher Education
- JBHE: New Book Explores the History of Storer College in West Virginia
- JHU – English Dept. – Prof. Lawrence Jackson
- Journal of African American History
- Journal of American History – Lincoln Recollections
- Journal of the Civil War Era
- JSTOR: Frederick Douglass’s Feud Over Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Leslie's Weekly 1855-1922
- Letter Book kept by Henry C. Wright [Douglass in Ireland] __ Cape Ann Museum
- Library of Congress Douglass Papers
- Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, 1882 (Google Books)
- Life of George Henry. Together with a Brief History of the Colored People in America:
- Lloyd Ancestry Est in Virginia
- LOC – Frederick Douglass papers, 1841-1967 Finding Aid
- LOC – Frederick Douglass papers, 1841-1967 Finding Aid [Archive Grid]
- LOC – Frederick Douglass papers, 1841-1967 Finding Aid [PDF]
- LOC FD Papers: "Colored Churches," North Star
- LOC FD Papers: "Colored National Press," North Star
- LOC FD Papers: "Colored Newspapers" North Star
- LOC FD Papers: "France," North Star
- LOC FD Papers: "Lynching Black People Because They Are Black," Christian Educator
- LOC FD Papers: "Our Paper and Its Prospects," North Star
- LOC FD Papers: "The Negro in This Political Campaign" (1892)
- LOC FD Papers: "Travel Through Foreign Lands" (newspaper clipping)
- LOC FD Papers: "Views on French Life, Manners, Society, Morality, Politics, and Religion"
- LOC FD Papers: Alumni Magazine (1881)
- LOC FD Papers: Board of Children's Guardians, Washington, D.C., 1893
- LOC FD Papers: Colored People's Educational Monument Association, Washington, D.C., 1865
- LOC FD Papers: District of Columbia, 1880-1904
- LOC FD Papers: Frederick Douglass Diary (Tour of Europe and Africa)
- LOC FD Papers: Genealogical Notes
- LOC FD Papers: Howard University Law School, Washington, D.C., 1890-1894
- LOC FD Papers: Invitation to Birthday at Metropolitan AME (1888)
- LOC FD Papers: Van Hook Place, Uniontown, D.C., Plat of, 1877
- LOC FD Papers: [On President Lincoln], The Liberator (1864)
- LOC Index to Douglass Letters
- LOC: Frederick Douglass: Online Resources
- LOCAL HISTORY ROCS! ROCHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY/LOCAL HISTORY & GENEALOGY DIVISION
- Mark Twain Project [Frederick Douglass refs – letters]
- Maryland State Archives: Profile on Anna Murray Douglass
- Maryland State Archives: Profile on Gov. Samuel Sprigg
- Medina marker to commemorate Frederick Douglass speeches
- Meet William Mahone, the Ex-Confederate General Who Built His Political Career on the Black Vote
- Memorable Days: The Emilie Davis Diaries
- Meta Warrick — JAH: March 2003 (Vol. 89, no. 4)
- Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church
- Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS (D-G))
- MSA: Early State Records, Newspapers
- MSA: Historical List United States Representatives
- MSRC: Digital Howard
- MSRC: Guide to the Black Press
- MSRC: Guide to the Black Press [PDF]
- MSRC: MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS (D-G)
- Music and Some Highly Musical People
- Nantucket Historical Association: "I Will Take to the Water": Frederick Douglass, the Sea, and the Nantucket Whale Fishery
- Nantucket Historical Association: Black-White Relations on Nantucket
- NARA – 351 – Records of the Government of the District of Columbia
- NARA: "A Look Back at John Brown" by Paul Finkelman
- NARA: Black History
- National Archives, "Teaching With Documents" – Lewis Douglass enlistment papers
- National Colored Press Association/American Press Association, 1881-1909; National Negro Press Association, 1909-1939
- National Colored Press Association/American Press Association, 1881-1909; National Negro Press Association, 1909-1939 (UK Libraries)
- NBCC Blog: 30 Books in 30 Days: Steven G. Kellman on Ezra Greenspan’s ‘William Wells Brown’
- New York Heritage Digital Collections: Douglass' Monthly
- New Yorkers Active in the Underground Railroad
- Newly Digitalized Civil War and Reconstruction Era Newspapers from Georgia Available Free OnLine
- Niles Register (1849) _ reporting on Woman's Rights Convention
- NPR: Failed Escape Sheds New Light on D.C. Slavery
- NPS: "Journey from Slavery to Statesman": The Homes of Frederick Douglass
- NYPL: Frederick Douglass collection
- NYT Disunion Blog: A Black Correspondent at the Front
- NYT: Disunion
- NYT: Past Imperfect: Lives in the Biographer’s Mirror
- O. O. Howard and the Freedmen’s Bureau
- Office of the City Historian – Rochester, NY
- Oration of the late Frederick Douglas preserved by the late Chas. N. Hunter to whom the manuscript was given [1872]
- ORDER — Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C.: The Lion of Anacostia (AMAZON)
- ORDER — Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C.: The Lion of Anacostia (Barnes & Noble)
- ORDER — Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C.: The Lion of Anacostia (The History Press)
- Ordinary Philosphy by Amy Cools (FD links)
- Pending Historic Landmark and Historic District Nominations
- People of Wye House
- Portrait of Frederick Douglass @ NPG
- Proceedings of the National Convention of the Colored Men of America: held in Washington, D. C., on January 13, 14, 15, and 16, 1869
- Purchasing Power of Money in the United States from 1774 to Present
- Readex Blog
- Recollections of Seventy Years by Daniel Alexander Payne
- Reflections by a Maryland Archivist (Edward Papenfuse)
- Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by distinguished men of his time By Allen Thorndike Rice
- Retrofitting Rochester: Talman Building
- Rev. Calvin Fairbank during slavery times (biography), 1890
- Robert H. Terrell papers [LOC]
- Rochester: A Story Historical
- Rochester’s black community had a deep—and underrecognized—influence on Frederick Douglass
- Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
- Samuel Clarke Pomeroy Papers [Kansas Historical Society]
- Schedule_"The Civil War in America" talks @ LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
- Shenandoah Valley Black Heritage Project
- Simmons, William J. Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising, Geo M. Rewell & Co.; Cleveland, OH. 1887. (Google Books)
- Smithsonian.com – transcribe-a-thon
- Smithsonian: Oratory from Slavery
- Summary of 1892 biography (Documenting the American South)
- T. Thomas Fortune House Project
- Talker of the Town
- THE BLACK PRESS HELD BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
- The Claims of the Negro, Ethnologically Considered.: An address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854.
- The Colored American
- The Colored Conventions Projec
- The First Negro Churches in the District of Columbia by John W. Cromwell
- The First Photo Op: Anthony Berger’s White House Photos of Lincoln
- The Frederick Douglass Papers: 1842-1852
- The Frederick Douglass Papers: 1842-1852 (Yale, 2009)
- The Freethough Trail
- The Freethough Trail – North Star office
- The Graves of Frederick Douglass
- The History Press Blog
- The Liberator Files
- The Libraries of Great Men: Frederick Douglass (The Art of Manliness)
- The Man with the Branded Hand: An Authentic Sketch of the Life and Services of Capt. Jonathan Walker
- The Other Alexandria
- The Rise of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore and the Bethel A.M.E. Church
- The sights of Washington and its vicinity, and how to see them (1887)
- The Washington Law Reporter, Volume 26
- The World They Left Behind: Anna Murray and Frederick Bailey's Baltimore, 1837-1841 [By Ed Papenfuse]
- Tour Historic Anacostia! — Discover the Fascinating Life of Frederick Douglass in DC
- Tribute in Memory of William Cooper Nell
- TRUTH BE TOLD News
- U of R – Frederick Douglass Papers (Finding Aid)
- UMD Lib Guide — Slavery & Freedom in Maryland
- University of Rochester Frederick Douglass Project
- University of Rochester, Frederick Douglass Project — Frederick Douglass Project letters
- University of Rochester, Frederick Douglass Project — Frederick Douglass Project: Will Fassett's Essay "The North Star, 1847-1849"
- Virtual tour of the Frederick Douglass house in Anacostia
- Washington Bee, 07 Aug. 1886. – Colored Press Convention @ Atlantic City
- Washington Bee, 17 July 1886. Colored Journalism
- Washington, Oustide and Inside by George Alfred Townsend
- Washington, Outside and Inside: A Picture and a Narrative of the Origin, Growth, Excellencies, Abuses, Beauties, and Personages of Our Governing City
- What I Would Do If I Were President
- William Dorsey Scrapbooks
- YALE GLC – Frederick Douglass, “A Few Facts and Personal Observations of Slavery: An Address Delivered in Ayr, Scotland on March 24, 1846.”
- [Chesapeake Journal] _ “The Hill” in Easton, now known as America’s OLDEST Free Black neighborhood (June 2013)
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