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"The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress presents the papers of the nineteenth-century African American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and then risked his freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher. The online collection, containing approximately 7,400 items (38,000 images), spans the years 1841-1964, with the bulk of the material dating from 1862 to 1865. Many of Douglass’s earlier writings were destroyed when his house in Rochester, New York, burned in 1872."

Article by Douglass in Atlantic Monthly 19 (Jan. 1867): 112-117.
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The American Missionary Volume 0049 Issue 4 (Apr 1895)

"... showcases Frederick Douglass' life at Cedar Hill, Anacostia, Southeast Washington, D.C., his last home."
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From the American Memory Collection - African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P.Murray Collection, 1818-1907

Pamphlets from the American Memory Collection From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909

The Century Illustrated Magazine 23, n.s. 1 (Nov. 1881): 125-131.
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Article in Atlantic Monthly 1866
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FROM The Liberator, 27 March 1846; Reprinted in Philip Foner, ed., Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, vol. 1 (New York: International Publishers, 1950), p. 138.

Digital document courtesy of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (http://www.yale.edu/glc/)