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Frederick Douglass in Chinese

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African American literature of slavery has a translation history dating from at least the 1840s.  One of the Project's collections addresses this history, with special attention to translations of Frederick Douglass published from the 19th-century to the present day.  The collection includes podcast readings of selected chapters from Douglass' 1845 narrative in French, Hebrew, Spanish, and most recently a Chinese reading by Prof. John Zou.  Read more...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

by things — last modified 2008-08-01 09:34

Electronic Teaching Edition of Douglass' 1845 classic narrative, with links to online resources; created by the Antislavery Literature Project (2005).

 

Other Douglass Texts Available Online

 

Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom. Part I. Life as a Slave. Part II. Life as a Freeman.  New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855.  Digitized by Documenting the American South.

 

---, “The Meaning of July Fourth to the Negro,” (1852).  Digitized by PBS.

 

----, “An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage,” (January 1867).  Digitized by the University of Oklahoma Law Center.