pt. 1. The world of slavery (1818-1838). Earliest memory of slavery / from My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)
Mr. Gore kills Demby / from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)
Douglass goes to Baltimore / from My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)
A year with a notorious slave breaker / from Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1892)
First escape attempt / from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (18452)
Escape! / from Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1892)
Truthful narrative / Douglass to William Lloyd Garrison, January 27, 1846
pt. 2. Reform and civil rights (1839-1858). American prejudice and southern religion / from "Proceedings of the Plymouth Co. A.S. Society," December 10, 1841
Segregation aboard the Cambria / Douglass to William Lloyd Garrison, April 21, 1847
Wielding the editor's pen / "Our Paper and Its Prospects" and "To Our Oppressed Countrymen," North Star, December 3, 1847
The concerns of African Americans / "An Address to the Colored People of the United States," North Star, September 22, 1848
To my former master / "To Captain Thomas Auld, Formerly My Master," North Star, September 7, 1849
Conductor on the Underground Railroad / Douglass to Samuel D. Porter, September 1851
Women and the antislavery movement / Douglass to Susan Farley Porter, March 27, 1852
John Brown and bleeding Kansas / "John Brown of Ossawattomie, Kansas," Frederick Douglass' Paper, June 27, 1856.
pt. 3. The nation at war (1859-1865). The Harpers Ferry insurrection / Douglass to the editor, Rochester Democrat, October 31, 1859
The aftermath of Harpers Ferry / "Capt. Brown Not Insane," Douglass' Monthly, November 1859
The election of 1860 / "The late election," Douglass Monthly, December 1960
Fighting the rebels with one hand / from "Speech of Frederick Douglass on the War," Douglass' Monthly, February 1862
Recruiter of black troops for the Union Army / Douglass to the editor, Anglo African, July 27, 1863
Equal pay and equal respect for black troops / Douglass to George Luther Stearns, Douglass' Monthly, August 1863
Douglass meets Lincoln / from Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1892)
The nation mourns / "Our Martyred President," Rochester Democrat, April 17, 1865
pt. 4. The aftermath of war (1866-1876). Reconstruction and the radical Republicans / Douglass to Charles Sumner, October 19, 1866
Douglass declines / Douglass to the citizens of Easton, Maryland, June 22, 1867
A compromise on suffrage rights / Douglass to Josephine S.W. Griffing, September 27, 1868
Racial realities in the postwar era / from Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1892)
The struggle for civil rights legislation / "Supplementary Civil Rights Bill," New National Era, January 11, 1872
Douglass becomes a stalwart Republican / "Which Greeley Are We Voting For?," Richmond Daily Dispatch, July 25, 1872
The Freedmen's Bank / from Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1892).
pt. 5. Aging reformer and stalwart Republican (1877-1895). Our national capital / from "A Lecture on Our National Capital" (1877)
A reunion with his old master / from Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1892)
The exoduster movement / from "The Negro Exodus from the Gulf States" (1880)
Douglass's second marriage / Douglass to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, May 30, 1884
Birthday wishes for an old friend / Douglass to the editor, New Era (Washington, DC), October 22, 1885
Minister to Haiti / Douglass to James G. Blaine, April 20, 1891
The "Negro Problem" / from Lessons of the Hour (1894).
