Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845): Library Resources

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• African-American Century
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• Afro-American Encyclopedia [vol 3]
• American Writers [supl 3, part 1]
• A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America Blacks in America
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• Critical Insights: The Slave Narrative
• Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
• Fifty Southern Writers Before 1900
• Glory Days: 365 Inspired Moments in African-American History
• Masterpieces of African-American Literature
• Masterplots II: African American Literature [vol 2]
• Modern Black Writers
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  • [vol 140] - locate the topical essay "Ecocriticism and Nineteenth-Century Literature"
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