Frederick Douglass, Author, Michael McCurdy, Illustrator, Coetta Scott King, Introduction by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $6.99 (80p) ISBN 978-0-679-84651-2
In her brief foreword to this significant book, an abridgment of the first of three autobiographies penned by the one-time slave and abolitionist, Coretta Scott King notes that her late husband was ``inspired and deeply moved'' by Douglass's account
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Frederick Douglass, Author, Henry Louis Gates, JR., Editor Library of America $40 (1100p) ISBN 978-0-940450-79-0
This omnibus volume collects three noted autobiographical works by Douglass (1818-1895), the ex-slave who became one of the nation's most powerful advocates, on the stump and in print, for abolition and racial justice. His first work, Narrative of...
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Frederick Douglass, read by Richard Allen. Dreamscape Media, unabridged, 17 CDs, 21.5 hrs., $44.99 ISBN 978-1-61120-509-1
Richard Allen pulls out all the stops in his narration of Douglass’s third autobiography, even singing—in a surprisingly rich and mellifluous voice—the spirituals transcribed by the author. This classic of 19th-century American literature chronicles
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Frederick Douglass, Author, Milton Meltzer, Editor, Stephen Alcorn, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $22 (220p) ISBN 978-0-15-229492-2
Extracts from writings and speeches by the 19th-century abolitionist are paired with Alcorn's dramatic linocuts. (Jan.) Melba Patillo Beals, who as a teenager in 1957 became a key player in a critical civil rights struggle, has abridged for young...
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Frederick Douglass, edited by Theodore Hamm. Akashic, $15.95 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-61775-485-2
This collection of Douglass’s speeches in Brooklyn displays the power of the former slave’s oratory before, during, and after the Civil War. Editor Hamm, a professor of media studies, places a selection of carefully reconstructed speeches in this...
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