Frederick Douglass papers
Contributors: Douglass, Helen, 1838-1903
Language: eng
Number of pages: 7400
Subjects: Politics and government; Freedmen; North star (Rochester, N.Y.); Slavery; Economic conditions; Slaves; Women's rights; Educational change; World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.); History; Correspondence; Exhibitions; Civil rights; Description and travel; African American newspapers; Emancipation; Social problems; Navy-yards and naval stations, American; African Americans
Other titles: Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress.
Description: Correspondence, diary (1886-1887), speeches, articles, manuscript of Douglass's autobiography, financial and legal papers, newspaper clippings, and other papers relating primarily to his interest in social, educational, and economic reform; his career as lecturer and writer; his travels to Africa and Europe (1886-1887); his publication of the North Star, an abolitionist newspaper, in Rochester, N.Y. (1847-1851); and his role as commissioner (1892-1893) in charge of the Haiti Pavilion at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.  Subjects include civil rights, emancipation, problems encountered by freedmen and slaves, a proposed American naval station in Haiti, national politics, and women's rights.  Includes material relating to family affairs and Cedar Hill, Douglass's residence in Anacostia, Washington, D.C.

Includes correspondence of Douglass's first wife, Anna Murray Douglass, and their children, Rosetta Douglass Sprague and Lewis Douglass; a biographical sketch of Anna Murray Douglass by Sprague; papers of his second wife, Helen Pitts Douglass; material relating to his grandson, violinist Joseph H. Douglass; and correspondence with members of the Webb and Richardson families of England who collected money to buy Douglass's freedom.

Correspondents include Susan B. Anthony, Ottilie Assing, Harriet A. Bailey, Ebenezer D. Bassett, James Gillespie Blaine, Henry W. Blair, Blanche Kelso Bruce, Mary Browne Carpenter, Russell Lant Carpenter, William E. Chandler, James Sullivan Clarkson, Grover Cleveland, William Eleroy Curtis, George T. Downing, Rosine Ame Draz, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Timothy Thomas Fortune, Henry Highland Garnet, William Lloyd Garrison, Martha W. Greene, Julia Griffiths, John Marshall Harlan, Benjamin Harrison, George Frisbie Hoar, J. Sella Martin, Parker Pillsbury, Jeremiah Eames Rankin, Robert Smalls, Gerrit Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Theodore Tilton, John Van Voorhis, Henry O. Wagoner, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett.
Notes: Open to research.

Available through the Library of Congress Web site.

Microfilm edition available, no. 10,997 & no. 16,377.

Microfilm edition (no. 10,997) produced from originals at the Frederick Douglass Memorial Home.  Material on this microfilm later transferred to Library of Congress Manuscript Division and included in Microfilm 16,377. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1945.

Microfilm edition (no. 16,377) produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1975.

In part, photocopies. [S.l.].

Gift, Fannie Douglass and others, 1973-1978.

Transfer, Library of Congress Microfilm Reading Room, 1956.

Transfer, National Park Service and others, 1972-1988.

Purchases, 1976-1997.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Abolitionist, diplomat, journalist, and orator; born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; changed name to Frederick Douglass after his escape from slavery in 1838.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet.