From the Book - First edition.
[Review of the Narrative] (New York Tribune, June 10, 1845) / Margaret Fuller
[Review of the Narrative] (Spectator, November 29, 1845) / Anonymous
[Letter from a former slaveholder] (Liberator, December 12, 1845) / A.C.C. Thompson
[Reply to Thompson's letter] (Liberator, February 27, 1846) ; Preface to the second Dublin edition of the Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglas (1846) / Federick Douglass
Douglass on his mother and his father (1845, 1855, 1892)
Douglass on his escape from slavery (1882)
I am here to spread light on American slavery (October 14, 1845) ; What to the slave is the Fourth of July? (July 5, 1852) / Frederick Douglass
From Frederick Douglass, the Orator (1893) / James Monroe Gregory
[Diary entry on Douglass's death] (February 21, 1895) / Elizabeth Cady Stanton
[The writing of the Narrative] / William S. McFeely
The autobiographical writings of Frederick Douglass / Peter Ripley
Narration, authentication, and authorial control in Frederick Douglass' Narrative of 1845 / Robert B. Stepto
[Frederick Douglass and the American Jeremiad] / William L. Andrews
[The economics of Douglass's Narrative] / Houston A. Baker, Jr.
In the first place : making Frederick Douglass and the Afro-American narrative tradition / Deborah E. McDowell.