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Frederick Douglass on Slavery and the Civil War: Selections from His Writings
Frederick Douglass
Dover Publications
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2003
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The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: Volume 5 - Supplementary Material 1844-1860 (Antiquarian Shelf)
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The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: Volume 3 - The Civil War (Antiquarian Shelf)
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Dover Thrift Editions)
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My Bondage and My Freedom (Black Rediscovery)
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself: A New Critical Edition by Angela Y. Davis (City Lights Open Media)
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My Bondage and My Freedom (Penguin Classics)
Frederick Douglass and John David Smith
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The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: Volume 1 - Early Years (Antiquarian Shelf)
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Slave Narratives
James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, Nat Turner, William Wells Brown, Ellen Craft, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Jacob D. Green, and William Craft
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The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: Volume 4 - Reconstruction and After (Antiquarian Shelf)
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Frederick Douglass, George Stade, and Robert O'Meally
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Written by Himself (Penguin Classics)
Frederick Douglass, Houston A. Baker, and William Lloyd Garrison
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The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass
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The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
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Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass
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In the Words of Frederick Douglass: Quotations from Liberty's Champion
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Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings (Library of Black America series, The)
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The Frederick Douglass Papers : Series Two: Autobiographical Writings; Volume 1 Narrative (The Frederick Douglass Papers Series)
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