Frederick Douglass Papers

Autobiographical Writings, Volume 3, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Book 1)

This volume contains all published documents which do not require transcription. They have OCR text that requires some clean up.

Autobiographical Writings, Volume 3, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Book 2: Historical Annotations)

This volume contains all published documents which do not require transcription. They have OCR text that requires some clean up.

Correspondence, Volume 4: 1881-1888 (documents to come)

The published volume will include 252 letters in full, and 667 calendared (or summarized) documents, for a total of 919 letters.

Correspondence, Volume 5: 1889-1895 (Unpublished documents now available to transcribe)

Correspondence Volume 5 (1889-1895) will be published in 2026. The published documents will be made publicly available on this space in 2028. Meanwhile, unpublished documents that will be calendared in Volume 5 are available here for transcription. More will be added to this site as they are...

NEW! Documents for Transcription (1853-1865)

Documents to be transcribed May-June 2024 for Correspondence Volume 2. If you are working on a letter from newspaper such as Frederick Douglass' Paper, you may be able to find a better more legible copy of the newspaper at the Library of Congress's website here...

Speeches, Volume 1(1841-1846) Unpublished (now private)

Speeches, Volume 2 (1847- ) Unpublished Private

1_Douglass Documents Available for Transcription (December 2022)

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