Frederick Douglass A Life in Documents

by James G. Basker

Frederick Douglass: A Life in Documents is a collection of essays by eminent historians presenting letters and speeches by Douglass from the Gilder Lehrman Collection. The documents, revealing powerful and poignant personal details of Douglass’s life as a public figure, are placed in context by such leading scholars as David W. Blight, Leigh Fought, James O. Horton, Lois E. Horton, Randall Kennedy, and Manisha Sinha, among others.

80 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2018

About the author

James G. Basker is President of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and Richard Gilder Professor of Literary History at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is the author or editor of several books, including Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems about Slavery 1600–1810; Early American Abolitionists: A Collection of Anti-Slavery Writings 1760–1820; and Slavery in the Founding Era: Literary Contexts.