Frederick Douglass

Series Editors' Foreword Abbreviations Introduction

PART I: KEY WORDS IN DOUGLASS'S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

1. Humanity 2. Power 3. Dignity 4. Freedom 5. Standpoint 6. Prejudice against Color 7. Struggle 8. Soul

PART II: AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND FICTION

My Bondage and My Freedom The Heroic Slave PART III: EDITORIALS, LECTURES, SPEECHES

1. "Our Paper and Its Prospects" and "To Our Oppressed Countrymen" 2. "The Rights of Women" 3. "The Revolution of 1848" 4. "The Destiny of Colored Americans" 5. "Prejudice Against Color" 6. "Is Civil Government Right?" 7. "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" 8. "A Nation in the Midst of a Nation" 9. "The Claims of the Negro Ethnologically Considered" 10. "Is it Right and Wise to Kill a Kidnapper?" 11. "The Dred Scott Decision" 12. "Pictures and Progress" 13. "What the Black Man Wants" 14. "Sources of Danger to the Republic" 15. "Our Composite Nationality" 16. "Let the Negro Alone" 17. "Woman Suffrage Movement" and "Woman and the Ballot" 18. "Oration Delivered on the Occasion of the Unveiling of the Freedmen's Monument in Memory of Abraham Lincoln" 19. "Speech at the Mass Meeting at Lincoln Hall, Washington, D.C." 20. "'It Moves,' or the Philosophy of Reform" 21. "The Nation's Problem" 22. "Self-Made Men" 23. "Lessons of the Hour"

Selected Bibliography Index