Life and times of Frederick Douglass
By: written by himself ... ; with an introduction by Mr. George L. Ruffin
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans; Biography; African American abolitionists; Abolitionists; Slaves; Fugitive slaves; Plantation life; History; Slavery; Social conditions; Antislavery movements; Slaves' writings, American
Other titles: North American slave narratives.
Notes: Title from electronic title page.

"His early life as a slave, his escape from bondage, and his complete history to the present time, including his connection with the anti-slavery movement; his labors in Great Britain as well as in his own country; his experience in the conduct of an influential newspaper; his connection with the Underground Railroad; his relations with John Brown and the Harper's Ferry Raid; his recruiting the 54th and 55th Mass. Colored Regiments; his interviews with Presidents Lincoln and Johnson; his appointment by Gen. Grant to accompany the Santo Domingo Commission; also to a seat in the Council of the District of Columbia; his appointment as United States Marshal by President R. B. Hayes; also his appointment to be Recorder of Deeds in Washington by President J. A. Garfield; with many other interesting and important events of his most eventful life."

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Transcribed from: Life and times of Frederick Douglass / written by himself; with an introduction by Mr. George L. Ruffin, of Boston. New revised ed. Boston : De Wolfe & Fiske Co., c1892. 752 p. : ill., port ; 21 cm.

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