NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS

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• OUSD's previously archived Frederick Douglass resources
• Texts of Frederick Douglass' writing and speeches
• Supplementary texts and Douglass excerpts provided by presenter
• Academic, library and museum sites with historical background and biographical information
• K-12 teacher and curriculum sites
• Video and audio archives of pertinent information

OUSD's previously archived Frederick Douglass resources

• Urban Dreams Project's Frederick Douglass page
  http://urbandreams.ousd.k12.ca.us/language_arts/extended/11/douglas/index.html
  
  
• Teaching American History's resource page for Frederick Douglass
  http://www.teachingamericanhistory.us/resources/historian_teach.html

TOP

• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845)
  http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/Literature/Douglass/Autobiography/
  
  
• My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass (1850)
  http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/hst/biography/MyBondageandMyFreedom/toc.html
  
  
• Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881)
  http://docsouth.unc.edu/douglasslife/douglass.html

• Excerpts from Frederick Douglass Narratives
  http://iu.berkeley.edu/ousd/Filer/filetree/douglass/frederick_douglasss_narrative_quotations.doc
  
  
• Poem by Richard Wright
  http://iu.berkeley.edu/ousd/Filer/filetree/douglass/richard_wright.doc
  
  
• Steve Biko: On Death
  http://iu.berkeley.edu/ousd/Biko
  
  
• Presenter recommends Orlando Patterson's book Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study
  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/067481083X/104-4484080-7205564?v=glanceko

Academic, library and museum sites with historical background and biographical information

• The Frederick Douglass Papers: at the Library of Congress
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/doughome.html
  
  
• The Frederick Douglass Papers Project: at University of Indiana/Purdue University
  http://www.iupui.edu/~douglass/
  
  
• Frederick Douglass resource bank: at PBS site
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1539.html
  
  
• A Frederick Douglass Biography: at the University of Rochester
  http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/douglass/home.html
  
  
• Frederick Douglass American Visionary: National Park Service site
  http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/douglass/
  
  
• Frederick Douglass All Image Gallery: National Park Service site
  http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/douglass/allimg.html
  
  
• Frederick Douglass: site at Keele University, UK
  http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Portraits/douglass.html

K-12 teacher and curriculum sites

• Lesson Plan for Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: developed by OUSD teacher Mary Scott
  http://urbandreams.ousd.k12.ca.us/lessonplans/frederickdouglass/index.html
  
  
• Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) — Classroom Issues and Strategies: from the Heath Anthology of American Literature site
  http://georgetown.edu/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/douglass.html
  
  
• Frederick Douglass Teacher Resource Page: archived at James Madison University
  http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/douglass.htm
  
  
• Frederick Douglass Lesson Plan: archived at the Africana Blackboard — lesson plans and learning exchange
  http://archive.blackvoices.com/blackboard/
  
  
• Selections for Discussion Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: from the Great Books Foundation
  http://www.greatbooks.org/library/guides/douglass.shtml
  
  
• Perspective on the Slave Narrative: from National Endowment for the Humanities site Edsitement
  http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=321

Video and audio

• A lecture "Frederick Douglass – An American Hero": Clarence Walker, UC Davis, for OUSD's Teaching American History
  http://www.teachingamericanhistory.us/speakers/walker.html
  
  
• Douglass video lesson: from C-Span's New History Series
  http://www.americanwriters.org/classroom/videolesson/vlp11_douglass.asp

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