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About the Douglass Papers Project
The Frederick Douglass Papers' objective is the collection, editing, and
publication of the voluminous papers of Frederick Douglass, one of the
foremost reformers of the nineteenth century. To be published in fourteen
volumes in four different series, the project encompasses letters to and
from Douglass, his speeches, debates, interviews, autobiographical writings,
editorials, and other published essays. The documents focus on slavery,
abolition, women's rights, temperance, politics, international relations,
and African American life and culture. The five-volume series of Douglass's
speeches, debates, and interviews, have been published to date. The first
volume of the autobiographical writings series of the project, Narrative
of the Life of Frederick Douglass, was published by Yale University
Press in spring 1999. Editorial work currently is underway on both the
correspondence series and the second volume of the autobiographical writings
series, My Bondage and My Freedom. The project was begun by Professor
John W. Blassingame and operated under his direction at Yale University
from 1973-93. John R. McKivigan became the principal investigator of the
project in 1994 and moved the project first to West Virginia University
and finally to Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis in
1998. Sponsorship and financial support for the project has come from the
National
Endowment for the Humanities, the National
Historical Publications and Records Commission, the Association
for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, the Ford
Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation,
and the various universities that have hosted the project.
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