Foreword by John Stauffer Preface Introduction: A Life of Reform Frederick Douglass Chronology The Words of Frederick Douglass Abolition - African American Character - Alcohol - Animals - Aristocracy - Art - Assimilation - Autobiography - Boasting - Capital Punishment - Children - Christmas - Cities - Civil Rights - Civil War - Class - Colonization - Conscience - Constitution - Crime - Death - Declaration of Independence - Disagreement - Diversity - Education - Emancipation - Emigration - Employment - Evolution - Family - Fathers - Firsts - Fourth of July - France - Free Blacks - Free Speech - Freedom - Freedman's Savings & Trust Bank - Friendship - Fugitive Slaves - Government - Great Britain - Haiti - Harpers Ferry - History - Home - Humanity - Human Rights - Humor - Immigration - Individuality - Inertia - Innocence - Ireland - Justice - Labor - Law - Liberty - Lies - Life - Luck - Lynching - Morality - Mothers - Murder - Native Americans - Nature - Necessity - Nostalgia - Oppression - Optimism - Oratory - Parenting - Patriotism - Peace - People - Photography - Politics - Poverty - The Press - Principles - Progress - Property - Prosperity - Public Opinion - Racism - Realism - Reconstruction - Reform - Religion - Resignation - Respect - Revolution - Sectional Reconciliation - Self-Awareness - Self-Defense - Slaveholders - Slavery - Slaves - Sleep - Success - Suffrage - Tariffs - Time - Travel - Trust - Truth - Underground Railroad - Usefulness - Vices - Virtues - War - Women Note on Editorial Method Selected Bibliography Index
John R. McKivigan is the Project Director and Editor of the Frederick Douglass Papers and Mary O'Brien Gibson Professor of United States History at IUPUI. Heather L. Kaufman is a research associate on the editorial staff of the Frederick Douglass Papers. John Stauffer is professor of English and American Literature and African American Studies and chair of the Program in the History of American Civilization at Harvard University. He is the author most recently of Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
"Culled from The Frederick Douglass Papers (speeches, correspondence, editorials/essays, autobiographies), the quotations in this single volume are arranged in alphabetical order with "nearly seven hundred" included. Many are on topics associated with Douglass: the Underground Railroad, racism, slavery, and emancipation-to name a few. Surprising are the quotations on unexpected topics, including humor, luck, optimism, photography, and vices... Scholars familiar with Douglass will find the introduction as useful, as will those new to his life and words. The 'Biographies and Studies of Frederick Douglass' in the selected bibliography is particularly useful."-Choice (1 September 2012) "This collection of Frederick Douglass's words will be a revelation to readers and a great gift to scholars. As a handy reference work, this book brings with it the authority of the editor of the Douglass papers, ensuring that each quote is properly sourced."-Donald Yacovone, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University, editor of Freedom's Journey: African American Voices of the Civil War "This wonderful body of quotations from the works of Frederick Douglass will be inspiring to readers of all ages and from all walks of life. It should also inspire a rising generation of readers who seek an explorer's guide to the voluminous productions of one of the most remarkable minds of the nineteenth century."-Wilson J. Moses, Ferree Professor of History, The Pennsylvania State University, author of Afrotopia: The Roots of African American Popular History
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