{"id":692,"date":"2010-12-07T19:21:52","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T00:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/?p=692"},"modified":"2011-03-16T23:11:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T04:11:56","slug":"frederick-douglass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/2010\/12\/07\/frederick-douglass\/","title":{"rendered":"1864 (Arguing for Justice) Frederick Douglass"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Frederick Douglass (House Divided)<\/p><\/div>\n

Sources<\/strong>
\nDouglass wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave<\/a><\/em> in 1845 and published Life and Times of Frederick Douglass<\/a><\/em> in 1881. Other primary sources include Philip S. Foner’s Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass<\/em> (1950-1975), John W. Blassingame’s The Frederick Douglass Papers: Speeches, Debates, and Interviews<\/em> (1979-1992), and the Frederick Douglass Papers<\/a> at the Library of Congress.<\/p>\n

Important secondary sources include Dickson J. Preston’s Young Frederick Douglass: The Maryland Years<\/em> (1980), David W. Blight’s Frederick Douglass’ Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee<\/a><\/em> (1989), Frederick S. Voss, Majestic in His Wrath: A Pictorial Life of Frederick Douglass<\/em> (1995), John Stauffer’s The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race<\/a><\/em> (2002), and James Oakes’ The Radical and The Republican: Fredrick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics<\/a><\/em> (2007).<\/p>\n

Artifacts<\/strong>
\nThe National Park Service’s “Frederick Douglass: Virtual Museum Exhibit<\/a>” has a number of items, including Douglass’ shoes<\/a> and Douglass’ death mask<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Places to Visit<\/strong>
\nIn Washington, DC you can visit Douglass’ house at\u00a0the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site<\/a>. A virtual tour<\/a> of the house is also available. In addition, there are a number of historical markers about Douglass<\/a>, including one in Chambersburg, Pennslvyania<\/a> that marks the place where Douglass met abolitionist John Brown in August 1859.<\/p>\n

Images<\/strong>
\nOver 15 images of Douglass are online at the National Park Service’s “Frederick Douglass: Virtual Museum Exhibit<\/a>.” Some of those photographs are included in the slideshow below.<\/p>\n

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Sources Douglass wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave in 1845 and published Life and Times of Frederick Douglass in 1881. Other primary sources include Philip S. Foner’s Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass (1950-1975), John W. Blassingame’s The Frederick Douglass Papers: Speeches, Debates, and Interviews (1979-1992), and the Frederick Douglass […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8648,3974],"tags":[156,13,8663],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arguing-for-justice","category-terrible-war-1861-1865","tag-images","tag-letters","tag-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2808,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/2808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}