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• The William B. Crawley Great Lives Lecture Series

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  Biography is the most intimate approach to history - and the most entertaining. UMW’s Great Lives lecture series reveals how extraordinary people – some born to privilege and power, others from modest backgrounds – shaped art, literature, science,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Frederick Douglass

  Prophet of Freedom

  Blight, David W.

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  Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in History. Blight uses papers that were not previously available to present this complete and well-researched biography.

• The Abolitionists

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  This portion of the program American Experience focuses on the lives of five abolitionists, including Frederick Douglass. This series is also available through our Kanopy streaming video service.

• Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass

  the Story Behind An American Friendship

  Freedman, Russell. 1929-2018

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  There were significant parallels between these two very influential men, as discussed by an award-winning author for young people.

• Autobiographies

  Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

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  Contains Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom, and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.

• Frederick Douglass

  the Lion Who Wrote History

  Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014

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  Myers presents a short, comprehensive biography for elementary school students.

• Frederick Douglass Papers

  View on loc.gov

  Douglass’ digitized papers housed at the Library of Congress.

• Giant's Causeway

  Frederick Douglass's Irish Odyssey and the Making of An American Visionary

  Chaffin, Tom

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  Douglass spent several years on a speaking tour of Great Britain in the 1840s, but it was his time in Ireland that was most significant, the author argues, and changed him from an activist foot soldier to a moral visionary.

• The Graphic Canon. Volume 2

  From "Kubla Khan" to the Brontë Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray

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  Includes Douglass' "The Message from Mount Misery" - its art/adaptation done by Seth Tobocman.

• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

  An American Slave

  Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

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  Douglass’ influential memoir was originally published in 1845.