Editing of Frederick Douglass Papers

FAIN: RE-10155-73

Yale University (New Haven, CT 06510-1703)
John W. Blassingame (Project Director: September 1973 to present)

The editing of the voluminous and widely scattered letters, diaries, speeches and autobiographies of Frederick Douglass (1817-1895). Douglass, the most famous American Negro of the nineteeth century, was a confidante of several American Presidents, ubiquitous reformer, traveller, orator, and abolitionist.