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Frederick Douglass in Context:
Library and Internet Resources on Douglass and His Times

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BACKGROUND INFORMATION

African American authors, 1745-1945: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook. Emmanuel S. Nelson, Editor. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000.

Offers up-to-date biographical, critical, and bibliographic information on the writers included. The chapters include biographical information, interpretive commentary, an overview of critical reception, and a bibliography with primary and secondary sources.

CALL NUMBER: Ref PS 153 .N5 A32 2000

African American writers. Valerie Smith, consulting editor; Lea Baechler, A. Walton Litz, general editors. New York : C. Scribner's Sons;Toronto: Collier Macmillan Canada ; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, c1991.

The article entitled "The Slave Narrative in American Literature" discusses the narratives of Equiano, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Jacobs and includes a bibliography of primary sources, biographies, and critical studies.

CALL NUMBER: Ref PS 153 .N5 A344 1991

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Black literature criticism: excerpts from criticism of the most significant works of black authors over the past 200 years. Edited by James P. Draper. Detroit: Gale Research, 1992.

An introductory essay on Douglass is followed by extensive excerpts from 13 different sources. A bibliography of Further Readings identifies additional research sources.

CALL NUMBER: Ref PS 153 .N5 B556 1992 -- v1-3

Dictionary of literary biography. Detroit: Gale Research, 1978-.

Volumes containing bio-critical essays on Douglass include:

* Vol. 01: The American renaissance in New England
* Vol. 43: American newspaper journalists, 1690-1872
* Vol. 50: Afro-American writers before the Harlem Renaissance
* Vol. 79: American magazine journalists, 1850-1900

CALL NUMBER: Ref PS 221 .D510

Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history. Edited by Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith, Cornel West. New York: Macmillan Library Reference, c1996.

CALL NUMBER: Ref E 185 .E54 1996 -- v1-5

Encyclopedia of American social history. Mary Kupiec Cayton, Elliott J. Gorn, Peter W. Williams, editors. New York: Scribner; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, c1993.

CALL NUMBER: Ref HN 57 .E58 1993 -- v.1-3

Zwick, Jim, Editor.
"Imperialism in the Making of America: Frederick Douglass." [ Online ]. Available: <http://www.boondocksnet.com/moa/moa_douglass.html> [Accessed 11 April 2001 ].

An index of articles from American magazines and journals online in the Making of America sites at the University of Michigan and Cornell University. This site includes nine full-text articles by Douglass.

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Reference Library of Black America. Jessie Carney Smith, Joseph M. Palmisano, editors. Farmington Hills, MI.:Gale Group, Inc.,2000.

Based on the eighth edition of The African American almanac, first published in 1967 as The Negro almanac. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Presents information on all aspects of African-American life including politics, employment and income, education, religion, literature, performing arts, science and medicine, and sports.

CALL NUMBER: Ref E 185 .R44 2000 -- v.1-5

Dictionaries

Dictionary of Afro-American slavery. Edited by Randall M. Miller and John David Smith. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.

CALL NUMBER: Ref E 441 .D53 1988

Atlases

Asante, Molefi K., 1942-
The historical and cultural atlas of African Americans. Molefi K. Asante, Mark T. Mattson. New York: Macmillan; Toronto: Collier Macmillan; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, c1991.

CALL NUMBER: Ref Atlas E 185 .A8 1991

Frederick Douglass in Context

"The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass." A Hypertext on American History: from the colonial period until Modern Times [ Online ] <http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/fdouglas/dougxx.htm>[Accessed 12 April 2001].

Haskins, James.
Distinguished African American Political and Governmental Leaders. Phoenix, Arizona: Oryx Press, 1999.

CALL NUMBER: Ref  E 185.61 .H359 1999

"Douglass, Frederick." Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. [ Online ] <http://search.eb.com/bol/topic ?eu=31569 &sctn=1>[Accessed 11 April 2001].

• association with Lincoln
• participation in abolitionism

SOURCES OF RESEARCH MATERIALS: BOOKS

Books -- Online Catalog

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Link to a more extensive listing of subject headings on Frederick Douglass

THE VIRTUAL LIBRARY

Relevant World-Wide Web Sites for Background Information
on
Frederick Douglass and His Times

• American Visionaries:Frederick Douglass
  Visit a virtual exhibit that features items owned by Frederick Douglass and highlights his achievements. The items are in the museum and archival collections at the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site.

• Bill of Rights in Action : Journal to Equality
  This edition of Bill of Rights in Action focuses on issues of equality. The first article recounts the struggle of black men to serve during the Civil War, and includes Frederick Douglass's involvement.

Address: http://www.crf-usa.org/bria/bria12_1.html

• Internet Modern History Sourcebook: US Civil War
  One of series of history primary sourcebooks. It is intended to serve the needs of teachers and students in college survey courses in modern American history, as well as in  modern Western Civilization and World Cultures.

Address: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook27.html

• The Life Of Frederick Douglass
  The site, maintained by the Frederick Douglass Historic Site, contains an introduction, chronology, an assortment of links to Web resources on Douglass and a bibliography .
  
  Address: http://www.nps.gov/frdo/fdlife.htm

• National Archives and Records Administration - Frederick Douglass
  Links to photographs and documents relating to Frederick Douglass and his life from the National Archives.

Address: http://search.nara.gov/

• Transcribed Newspaper Articles--Franklin County: African-Americans/Race Relations
  This section includes several articles on Douglass. "The newspaper transcription index is organized by county and then by topic. Over a thousand articles have been transcribed and indexed. Some readers may use the index to find articles on major events; others may choose to follow the everyday activities of local people and groups."

  Address: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/vshadow2/Browser1/frbrowser/fr.topic.african.html

Useful Web Sites for African American History & Culture

• The African-American Mosaic
  A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture.The exhibit covers four areas --Colonization, Abolition, Migrations, and the WPA--of the many covered by the Mosaic. Extensive text as well as reproductions of documents and photos.
  
  Address: http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html

• The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
  "This site is part of the Library of Congress American Memory project. It traces the African-American experience through nine chronological periods that document the long and difficult path from slavery to Reconstruction to the fight for civil and social equality in the twentieth century. Contents include images of a wide range of rare books, manuscripts, government documents, sheet music, movie posters, and photographs."
  
  Address: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/aohome.html

• Excerpts from Slave Narratives
  A collection of slave narratives edited by Steven Mintz, from the University of Houston.

Address: http://vi.uh.edu/pages/mintz/primary.htm

• From Revolution to reconstruction
  "A Hypertext on American History from the colonial period until Modern Times." Created by the University of Groningen (The Netherlands).
  
  Address: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/

• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
  A national research library - branch of the New York Public Library - devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world. Selected Internet Sources of information on Africa and the African Diaspora.
  
  Address: http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html

Useful Web Sites for Literary Research

• African American Literature
  Part of the Multicultural Pavilion Internet project. Includes narratives, poetry, and essays.

  Address: http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/multicultural/sites/aframdocs.html

• Schaffer Library Sources in Literary Resources
  Maintained by Schaffer Library, the site identifies Library and Internet resources suitable for students and faculty conducting research in English and American literature.

  Address: http://www.union.edu/PUBLIC/LIBRARY/virt/literary.html

• Voice of the Shuttle - English Literature - Minority Literatures
  A sub page of "Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research," an index for the Humanities maintained by Alan Liu, a Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

  Address: http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/eng-min.html

SOURCES OF RESEARCH MATERIALS: PERIODICALS DATABASES

Scholarly periodical databases give a researcher access to articles on specific subjects that have appeared in variety of periodicals. Such databases may cover a broad area of study the way Humanities Abstracts and Arts and Humanities Search do. Others, such as Black Studies On Disc, focus more sharply. Most journal articles listed are written by scholars and aimed at other researchers in that field, making them particularly important research sources. Searching a database will give the researcher the bibliographic citation needed to identify and locate a specific work on a topic: author, title of article, journal title, volume and issue number, date, and pages. An abstract briefly summarizes an article's contents.

Some online databases—EBSCOhost, JSTOR, H.W. Wilson Select Full Text in FirstSearch, and ProQuest Direct—include the full text of at least some of the articles online. Databases are accessible via the Library's Electronic Resources Page.

Relevant online databases for research on Douglass and his beliefs include:

• Black Studies on Disc
• EBSCOhost
• America History & Life
• HarpWeek [Harper's Weekly]
• JSTOR
• PCI Web
• Project Muse
• ProQuest Direct

OCLC FirstSearch Databases:

• Arts and Humanities Search — citation database
• Humanities Abstracts — includes philosophy, history, culture
• Wilson Select Full-Text
• WorldCat — books and other library materials

Last revised on April 12, 2001