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    • "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
    • Horowitz Bookseller
    • Howard University MSRC _ Finding Aid _ FD Papers [PDF]
    • http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/29828
    • http://theliberatorfiles.com/
    • 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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