Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
The Text
Audiobook
Resources
Brief biography of Frederick Douglass from Biography.com
Frederick Douglass page from History.com
Frederick Douglass entry from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Frederick Douglass: A Resource Guide from Library of Congress
National Park Service site - includes a virtual tour
Letter written by Frederick Douglass to Hugh Auld, 1857 from The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight from Simon & Schuster
AUDIOBOOK: Read by Forest Whitaker from Spotify
PODCAST: "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" from Required Reading
PODCAST: "Frederick Douglass" from BBC Radio's In Our Time
PODCAST: "300 Frederick Douglass" and "311 Frederick Douglass Learns to Read" from The History of Literature
VIDEO: A reading of "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" from American Writers Museum
VIDEO: “Frederick Douglass: Literacy, Libraries and Liberation," a LIVE from the NYPL event
VIDEO: "David Blight on Frederick Douglass (Lincoln Log Podcast)" from Abraham Lincoln Association
ARTICLES:
"The 100 best nonfiction books: No 68 – Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845)" by Robert McCrum for The Guardian
"Frederick Douglass On How Slave Owners Used Food As A Weapon Of Control" by Nina Martyris for NPR
"Frederick Douglass Used Photographs To Force The Nation To Begin Addressing Racism" by Renee Graham for WBUR
"Frederick Douglass’s ‘amazing job’ started with his first book" by Ron Charles for The Washington Post
"Frederick Douglass’s Emotional Meeting With the Man Who Enslaved Him" by Erin Blakemore for History
"Frederick Douglass’s Original New York Times Obituary From 1895"
"The Prophetic Pragmatism of Frederick Douglass" by Adam Gopnik for The New Yorker