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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
- Wortley, near Leeds [England] : Printed by Joseph Barker, 1846.
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- Description
- xviii, 170 p., [1] leaf of plates : port.; 19 cm.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Subjects
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
- Enslaved persons > United States > Biography
- Enslaved persons > Maryland > Social conditions
- Enslaved persons > Maryland > Biography
- Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
- Abolitionists > United States > Biography
- Black author
- African American abolitionists > Biography
- Antislavery movements > United States
- Plantation life > Maryland > History > 19th century
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 > Portraits
- Fugitive slaves > Maryland
- Presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
- Genre/Form
- Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
- Presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
- Note
- Includes Preface to the second Dublin edition, Preface to the first American edition signed at end by Wm. Lloyd Garrison, Letter from Wendell Phillips, Esq., Postscript, Appendix, Critical notices, "American slavery. Report of a public meeting held at Finsbury Chapel, Moorfields, to receive Frederick Douglass ... May 22, 1846" (p. [133]-166), and "To the friends of the slave" (p. [167]-170).
- 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.
- Indexed In (note)
- Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
- Provenance (note)
- inscribed: in ink on recto of free endleaf preceding frontispiece portrait "Huldah B. Gilson from her sincere friend Frederick Douglass. Lynn, Mass. 29 April 1847." ; Inscribed: in pencil on same leaf "To Anne M. Newell." ; 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. 1846, 3d ed.)
- LCCN
- 16008183
- OCLC
- 5521441
- NYPGR5521441-B
- Author
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
- Title
- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave / written by himself.
- Imprint
- Wortley, near Leeds [England] : Printed by Joseph Barker, 1846.
- Edition
- Third English edition.
- Indexed In:
- Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 3234A
- Provenance
- Copy in Sc Rare B-Douglass (accession no. B591686) inscribed: in ink on recto of free endleaf preceding frontispiece portrait "Huldah B. Gilson from her sincere friend Frederick Douglass. Lynn, Mass. 29 April 1847." ; Inscribed: in pencil on same leaf "To Anne M. Newell." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
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- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879.Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884.Barker, Joseph (Printer), printer.Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895, inscriber.Gilson, Huldah B., former owner.Newell, Anne M., 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. 1846, 3d ed.)