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Biography
Details of Visit
Douglass, Burns and Scott
Fellow Travellers
Links

Resources

Books
Books and articles on Douglass and his visit of 1845-47.

Libraries
Other sources of primary materials.

• Frederick Douglass National Historic Site (Washington, DC).
• The Frederick Douglass Museum and Cultural Centre (Rochester, NY).
• Frederick Douglass Comes to Life. Actor/educator Fred Morsell has brought his 'Presenting Mr. Frederick Douglass' performances and workshops to over 500 schools and communities nationally since 1988, sharing Douglass' life, message of justice, and keys to success

• Frederick Douglass, Autoboigraphy of Frederick Douglass, American Slave (1845) . His first autobiography.
• Frederick Douglass, The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881). His third autobiography.
• William Wells Brown, Three Years in Europe (1852).
• William Wells Brown, An American Fugitive in Europe (1855).
• Samuel Ringgold Ward, Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro (1855).

On Walter Scott:

• The Walter Scott Digital Archive. Online resource produced by Edinburgh University Library. Includes useful Untangling the Web: Scott on the Internet.

• Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855). His second autobiography, which includes an account of his visit to Britain and Ireland in 1845-47.
• John W Blassingame (ed), The Frederick Douglass Papers. Series One: Speeches, Debates and Interviews. Volume 1: 1841-1846 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979). Includes the text of 19 speeches made in Scotland 1846-47.
• Philip Foner (ed), The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass. Volume 1: Early Years, 1817-1849 (New York: International Publishers, 1950). Includes letters written in Scotland 1846.

• Benjamin Quarles, Frederick Douglass (Washington, DC: Associated Publishers, 1948)
• Philip S Foner, Frederick Douglass: A Biography (New York: 1964).
• Nathan Huggins, Slave and Citizen: The Life of Frederick Douglass (Boston: Little, Brown, 1980)
• William McFeeley, Frederick Douglass (New York: Touchstone, 1991).

• George Shepperson, 'The Free Church and American Slavery', Scottish Historical Review 30 (October 1951).
• George Shepperson, 'Thomas Chalmers, the Free Church of Scotland, and the South', Journal of Southern History 17 (November 1951).
• George Shepperson, 'Frederick Douglass and Scotland', Journal of Negro History 38 (July 1953).
• C Duncan Rice, The Scots Abolitionists, 1833-1861 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981).
• R J M Blackett, Building an Antislavery Wall: Black Americans in the Atlantic Abolitionist Movement (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983).
• Alan J Rice and Martin Crawford (eds), Liberating Sojourn: Frederick Douglass and Transatlantic Reform (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999).

• The Mitchell Library in Glasgow has the minutes of the Glasgow Emancipation Society and related documents.