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Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave
- Title
- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave / written by himself.
- Author
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
- Publication
- Dublin : Webb and Chapman, Gt. Brunswick-Street, 1845.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc Rare B-Douglass (Douglass, F. Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass. Dublin: 1845) | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xvi, 128 p., [1] leaf of plates : port.; 20 cm.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Subjects
- Enslaved persons > United States > Biography
- Enslaved persons > Maryland > Biography
- Enslaved persons > Maryland > Social conditions
- Plantation life > Maryland > History > 19th century
- Abolitionists > United States > Biography
- Antislavery movements > United States
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 > Portraits
- Black author
- Fugitive slaves > Maryland > Biography
- African American abolitionists > Biography
- Note
- "Preface to the American edition" on p. [v]-xii signed and dated: Wm. Lloyd Garrison, Boston, May 1, 1845.
- "Letter from Wendell Phillips, Esq."--p. [xiv]-xvi.
- This Narrative, the autobiography of Frederick Douglass, was expanded in 1855 under the title My bondage and my freedom. In 1881, it was further extended as the Life and times of Frederick Douglass, and in 1893 completed and revised under the same title.
- Provenance (note)
- inscribed: in pencil on recto of free endleaf preceding frontispiece "J. Oswald Jackson August 1846." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
- Call Number
- Sc Rare B-Douglass (Douglass, F. Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass. Dublin: 1845)
- OCLC
- 3803653
- NYPGR3803653-B
- Author
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
- Title
- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave / written by himself.
- Imprint
- Dublin : Webb and Chapman, Gt. Brunswick-Street, 1845.
- Provenance
- Copy in Sc Rare B-Douglass (accession no. B591671) inscribed: in pencil on recto of free endleaf preceding frontispiece "J. Oswald Jackson August 1846." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
- Local Note
- Researchers are restricted to the microform copy in: Sc Micro R-895 [pt. 1].
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879.Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884.Webb and Chapman, publisher.Jackson, J. Oswald, former owner.Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
- Research Call Number
- Sc Rare B-Douglass (Douglass, F. Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass. Dublin: 1845)