Frederick Douglass, Abolition & Abraham Lincoln
 

1818-1895
Slave, Free Man, Abolitionist, Army Recruiter, Newspaper Editor, & Presidential Advisor
 

A Learning On-Line Learning Activity based upon the life
of Frederick Douglass, former slave
By Howard Taylor
 

1. Library of Congress, American Memories Collection: at http://international.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/tl3.html

2. Library of Congress, American Memories Collection:  Frederick Douglass Papers Online Collection at http://international.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/doughome.html

3. Library of Congress, Frederick Douglass Papers: In His Own Words at: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/words.html

4.  Library of Congress, Frederick Douglass Papers: In His Own Words at: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/words.html

5.  Library of Congress, Frederick Douglass Papers The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave 1845 (1849 Ed.)

6. Library of Congress, Frederick Douglass Papers My Bondage and My Freedom 1855 (1857 Ed.)

7.  Lincoln Second Inauguration Reception Narrative at Abraham Lincoln Classroom at http://www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org/Library/newsletter.asp?ID=118&CRLI=166

8.   Article concerning Frederick Douglass attending Lincoln's Second Inaugural Reception at Abraham Lincoln Classroom at http://www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org/Library/newsletter.asp?ID=118&CRLI=166

9.  Nearby Washington article at http://www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org/inside.asp?ID=4&subjectID=4

10.  A Comparison (article) of Frederick Douglass to Abraham Lincoln National Center for Teaching Thinking at http://www.nctt.net/Lincoln.pdf

11.  Another Comparison (article) of Frederick Douglass to Abraham Lincoln at Abraham Lincoln's Classroom Online by the Lincoln Institute & the Lehrman Institute at http://www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org/Library/newsletter.asp?ID=118&CRLI=166 

12.  A Civil War Timeline by the Civil War website at http://www.civilwar.com/content/section/16/42/

13.  History Place (website) Civil War Timeline at http://www.civilwar.com/civil-war-timeline-of-events/civil-war-overview.html

14.  Congressional Medal of Honor winners by African Americans at the Buffalo Soldiers site at http://www.buffalosoldier.net/CIVIL WAR AFRO-AMERICAN MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENTS.htm

15.  Library of Congress Learning Page: Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877, African-American Soldiers During the Civil War online at   http://rs6.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/civilwar/aasoldrs/soldiers.html

16.  54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment at the Battle for Fort Wagner (article) from American Originals from the National Archives and Records Administration at http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/american_originals/54thmass.html

17.  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, 1845 at http://www.alincolnlearning.us/narrative_f_douglass.html

18.  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass American Memories Collection of the Library of Congress at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/lhbcb:@field(DOCID+@lit(lhbcb25385))

19.  Library of Congress, American Memories Collection Frederick Douglass Autobiography, at  http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=ABT6496

20.  The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881) at http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/douglasslife/douglass.htm

21. (An excerpt from an article) An Unusual Friendship - Lincoln & Frederick Douglass by William Connery at http://www.rense.com/general63/friend.htm

22.  Abraham Lincoln Complete Works Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings.   Ed. by John G. Nicolay and John Hay.  Vol. 2, The Century Co.  1894  p. 378 p. 378     Online at Google Books

OTHER USEFUL RESOURCES FOR FURTHER STUDY

1.  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Himself (online) at  http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/Douglass/Autobiography/   

or at http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/douglass/DUGLAS11.txt

2.  Frederick Douglass Museum and Hall of Fame for Caring Persons (online) at http://www.nahc.org/fd/history.html

3.  National Park Service Frederick Douglass National Historic Site (online) at http://www.nps.gov/frdo/

4.  Library of Congress Manuscript Division (4-17) online at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart4.html#0417

5.  Library of Congress American Treasures of the Library of Congress Reason:  The North Star (online) at http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/s99.2p1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr085.html&h=861&w=640&sz=153&hl=en&start=

15&um=1&usg=__HpJp8TRUgOUBiuboRMAA6L953yA=&tbnid=a1arjWpfCZiiHM:&tbnh=145&tbnw=108&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfrederick%2Bdouglass%2Bimages%2B%252BLOC%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

6.  PBS Africans in America: Judgment Day Part 4: 1831-1865 Resource Bank Contents (online) includes information for Antebellum Slavery and many other related subjects at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/index.html

7.   PBS Africans in America: Judgment Day, Part 4: 1831-1865 People & Events Frederick Douglass 1818-1895

8.   PBS the Time of the Lincolns Partisan Politics: Slavery and Freedom (online) at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/slavery/

9.  Mr. Lincoln’s White House, Residents and Visitors: Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) (online) at http://www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org/inside.asp?ID=38&subjectID=2

10.  Mr. Lincoln and Freedom (the Lincoln Institute Presents) Mr. Lincoln’s Contemporaries (online) at http://www.mrlincolnandfreedom.org/inside.asp?ID=69&subjectID=4

11. EDSITEment Lesson Plan on Frederick Douglass:  http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=594

12.  The Atlantic Magazine “Rhetoric of Freedom:  http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/freedom.htm