Research Catalog

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, 1846.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879.
• Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884.
• Thompson, A. C. C.
• Webb and Chapman, publisher.

Description

xviii, 122, [1], cxxiv-cxxxv, [1] 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
• Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 > Portraits
• Black author
• Abolitionists > United States > Biography
• Fugitive slaves > Maryland
• Plantation life > Maryland > History > 19th century
• Slavery > Maryland
• African American abolitionists > Biography
• Antislavery movements > United States

Note

• "Preface to the first American edition" on pages [vii]-xv signed and dated: Wm. Lloyd Garrison, Boston, May 1, 1845.
• "Letter from Wendell Phillips, Esq.": pages [xiii]-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.
• "The following comments on my Narrative appeared very lately in the 'Delaware Republican,' a newspaper published in the most northern of the Slave States, and not very remote from the part of Maryland where my early days were spent. Although put forth as a refutation of my statements, under the unflattering title of 'Falsehood refuted,' I have great pleasure in presenting it to my readers. The writer's admissions are valuable as a confirmation of the main facts of my Narrative, while the denials are only such as might be expected from an apologist of slavery. My reply to Mr. Thompson will be found at the end of his letter."--Appendix, [1], cxxiv-cxxxv p. at end.

Provenance (note)

• 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: 1846)

LCCN

18018468

OCLC

• 9456234
• NYPGR9456234-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, 1846.

Edition

Second Dublin edition.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare B-Douglass (copy 2) (accession no. B591667) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Copy in Sc Rare B-Douglass (copy 2) imperfect; lacking frontispiece portrait. NN

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879.

Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884.

Thompson, A. C. C. Falsehood refuted.

Webb and Chapman, publisher.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare B-Douglass (Douglass, F. Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass. Dublin: 1846)

AN (Douglass) (Douglass, F. Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass. 1846)