The Frederick Douglass Papers by Frederick Douglass

The Frederick Douglass Papers by Frederick Douglass

The selected correspondence of the great American abolitionist and reformer dating from the immediate post–Civil War years   This third volume of Frederick Douglass’s Correspondence Series exhibits Douglass at the peak of his political influence. It chronicles his struggle to persuade the nation to fulfill its promises to the former slaves and all African Americans in the tempestuous years of Reconstruction.    Douglass’s career changed dramatically with the end of the Civil War and the long-sought after emancipation of American slaves; the subsequent transformation in his public activities is reflected in his surviving correspondence. In these letters, from 1866 to 1880, Douglass continued to correspond with leading names in antislavery and other reform movements on both sides of the Atlantic, and political figures began to make up an even larger share of his correspondents.   The Douglass Papers staff located 817 letters for this time period and selected 242, or just under 30 percent, of them for publication. The remaining 575 letters are summarized in the volume’s calendar.

John R. McKivigan is Mary O’Brien Gibson Professor of United States History at Indiana University–Purdue University at Indianapolis. He is general editor of Yale’s Frederick Douglass Papers Series and lives in Indianapolis, IN.

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ISBN 13	9780300257922
ISBN 10	0300257929
Title	The Frederick Douglass Papers
Author	Frederick Douglass
Series	The Frederick Douglass Papers Series
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Yale University Press
Year published	2023-11-14
Number of pages	696
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