If I Survive
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If I Survive

Frederick Douglass and Family in the Walter O. Evans Collection

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If I Survive

Frederick Douglass and Family in the Walter O. Evans Collection

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Previously unseen speeches, letters, autobiographies, and photographs of Frederick Douglass and his sons, Lewis Henry, Frederick Jr. and Charles Remond Douglass, from the Walter O. Evans collection While the many public lives of Frederick Douglass – as the representative 'fugitive slave', autobiographer, orator, abolitionist, reformer, philosopher and statesman – are lionised worldwide, If I Survive sheds light on the private life of Douglass the family man. For the first time, this book provides readers with a collective biography mapping the activism, authorship and artistry of Douglass and his sons, Lewis Henry, Frederick Jr. and Charles Remond Douglass. In one volume, the history of the Douglass family appears alongside full colour facsimile reproductions of their over 80 previously unpublished speeches, letters, autobiographies and photographs held in the Walter O. Evans Collection. All of life can be found within these pages: romance, hope, despair, love, life, death, war, protest, politics, art, and friendship. Working together and against a changing backdrop of US slavery, Civil War and Reconstruction, the Douglass family fought for a new 'dawn of freedom'. Marking the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass' birth, this first collective history and comprehensive collection of the Douglass family writings and portraits sheds new light not only on Douglass as a freedom-fighter and family man but on the lives and works of Lewis Henry, Frederick Jr., and Charles Remond. As civil rights protesters, essayists, autobiographers, and orators in their own right, they each played a vital role in the 'struggles for the cause of liberty' of their father. As published here, each of their original writings and portraits is accompanied by an explanatory essay and in-depth scholarly annotatations as well as a detailed bibliography. Recognising that the Frederick Douglass that is needed in a twenty-first century Black Lives Matter era is no infallible icon but a mortal individual, If I Survive situates the lives and works of Douglass and his family within the social, political, historical and cultural contexts in which they lived and worked. Each unafraid to die for the cause, they dedicated their lives to the "emancipation of the slave" and to social justice by every means necessary. The Foreword is written by Robert S. Levine and the Afterword is authored by Kim F. Hall.

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Information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2018
eBook ISBN
9781474439732
Topic
History
Subtopic
19th Century History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright information
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Foreword
  7. Preface
  8. Family Tree
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. A Note on Texts and Editorial Practice
  11. Introduction
  12. Part 1: Our Bondage and Our Freedom
  13. Frederick Douglass and Family Chronologies
  14. Frederick Douglass (1818–1895)
  15. Lewis Henry Douglass (1841–1908)
  16. Frederick Douglass Jr. (1842–1892)
  17. Charles Remond Douglass (1844–1920)
  18. Part II: An “Undying” Love Story
  19. “A Heart of Love”: The Courtship of Helen Amelia Loguen and Lewis Henry Douglass
  20. 1. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen, Rochester, NY, December 22, 1860
  21. 2. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen, Rochester, NY, June 1, 1861
  22. 3. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen, Rochester, NY, September 24, 1861
  23. 4. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen, Rochester, NY, September 29, 1861
  24. 5. Helen Amelia Loguen to Lewis Henry Douglass, Syracuse, NY, October 3, 1861
  25. 6. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen, Rochester, NY, December 8, 1861
  26. 7. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen, Rochester, NY, July 11, 1862
  27. 8. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen, Salem, NJ, November 20, 1862
  28. 9. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen, Salem, NJ, December 29, 1862
  29. Part III: “Men of Color, To Arms!”
  30. Fighting “Freedom’s Battle”
  31. “Do Not Think of Me in Pain”
  32. “I Take a Bullet First”
  33. 10. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen, Camp Meigs, Readville, MA, March 31, 1863
  34. 11. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen, Camp Meigs, Readville, MA, April 8, 1863
  35. 12. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen, Camp Meigs, Readville, MA, April 15, 1863
  36. 13. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen, Camp Meigs, Readville, MA, May 9, 1863
  37. 14. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen, Camp Meigs, Readville, MA, May 20, 1863
  38. 15. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen, Camp Meigs, Readville, MA, May 27 [1863]
  39. 16. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen, St. Simons Island, GA, June 18, 1863
  40. 17. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen, Morris Island, SC, August 15 [1863]
  41. 18. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen, Morris Island, SC, August 27, 1863
  42. 19. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen, Rochester, NY, January 31, 1864
  43. 20. Charles Remond Douglass to Frederick Douglass, Camp Meigs, Readville, MA, July 6, 1863
  44. 21. Charles Remond Douglass to Frederick Douglass, Boston, MA, September 8, 1863
  45. 22. Charles Remond Douglass to Frederick Douglass, Boston, MA, September 18, 1863
  46. 23. Charles Remond Douglass to Frederick Douglass, Boston, MA, December 20, 1863
  47. 24. Charles Remond Douglass to Frederick Douglass, Camp Hamilton, City Point, VA, near Bermuda Hundred, May 31, 1864
  48. 25. Charles Remond Douglass to Anna Murray and Frederick Douglass, Point Lookout, MD, September 15, 1864
  49. Part IV: The “Incontestable Voice of History” in Frederick Douglass’s Manuscripts
  50. 26. “The Energy that Slumbers in the Black Man’s Arm”: Frederick Douglass, “Lecture on Santo Domingo,” c. 1873
  51. 27. “It is Hard for a White Man to Do Justice to a Black Man”: Frederick Douglass, “The Louisiana Senator [P. B. S. Pinchback]”
  52. 28. “My Own Murdered People”: Frederick Douglass, “William the Silent,” 1876
  53. 29. “The Welfare of the Coloured People: Frederick Douglass, “The Exodus from the South,” c. 1879
  54. 30. “A Great Example of Heroic Endeavor”: Frederick Douglass, “Eulogy for William Lloyd Garrison,” 1879
  55. Part V: “I Glory in Your Spirit”
  56. “Pluck, Pluck My Boy is the Thing that Wins”
  57. 31. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen, Rochester, NY, May 20, 1864
  58. 32. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen, Mitchellville, MD, September 28, 1864
  59. 33. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen, Rochester, NY, March 26, 1865
  60. 34. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen, Ferry Neck, MD, January 7, 1866
  61. 35. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen, Denver, CO, September 30, 1866
  62. 36. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen, Philadelphia, PA, February 10, 1868
  63. 37. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen, Washington, DC, July 5, 1869
  64. 38. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen, Washington, DC, July 17, 1869
  65. 39. Frederick Douglass to Lewis Henry Douglass, Rochester, NY, July 21, 1869
  66. 40. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen, Washington, DC, September 15, 1869
  67. 41. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen Douglass, [Washington, DC], December 5, 1870
  68. 42. Lewis Henry Douglass to Columbian Typographical Union No. 101, [Washington, DC], January 1871
  69. 43. Frederick Douglass to Judge Edmunds, Washington, DC, August 29, 1876
  70. 44. Frederick Douglass to Mrs. Marks, Washington, DC, February 13, 1884
  71. 45. Frederick Douglass to Charles Remond Douglass, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, February 25, 1891
  72. 46. Frederick Douglass to Charles Remond Douglass, c. April 1891
  73. 47. Frederick Douglass to Lewis Henry Douglass, [Port-au-Prince, Haiti], March 7, 1891
  74. 48. Frederick Douglass to Catherine Swan Brown Spear, Cedar Hill, Washington, DC, March 7, 1892
  75. 49. Frederick Douglass to Charles Remond Douglass, Exposition Universelle de Chicago, Haitian Pavilion, Chicago, IL, October 7, 1893
  76. 50. Haley George Douglass to Frederick Douglass, Washington, DC, March 3, 1893
  77. 51. Frederick Douglass to Haley George Douglass, Cedar Hill, [Washington, DC], March 7, 1893
  78. 52. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen Douglass, [Washington, DC], December 19, 1894
  79. 53. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen Douglass, [Washington, DC], January 20, 1895
  80. 54. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen Douglass, [Washington, DC], January 30, 1895
  81. 55. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen Douglass, Washington, DC, February 18, 1895
  82. 56. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen Douglass, Washington, DC, October 9, 1900
  83. 57. Lewis Henry Douglass to Helen Amelia Loguen Douglass, Washington, DC, July 5, 1905
  84. 58. Lewis Henry Douglass, Scrapbook, Washington, DC, August 2, 1907
  85. 59. Lewis Henry Douglass to W. J. Vernon Esq., Washington, DC, December 3, 1907
  86. Part VI: “I Was Born”
  87. Suffering and Sacrifice
  88. 60. Frederick Douglass Jr., “Frederick Douglass Jr. in Brief from 1842–1890” [c. 1890]
  89. 61. Frederick Douglass Jr., Untitled Biography of Virginia L. M. Hewlett [c. 1890]
  90. 62. Virginia L. M. Hewlett, “To the Fifth Mass. Cavalry,” 1864
  91. Part VII: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave and Free Man, as told by Charles Remond Douglass
  92. The “Sacrifices of my Father[’]s Family”
  93. 63. Charles Remond Douglass, “Some Incidents of the Home Life of Frederick Douglass” [c. February 1917]
  94. Part VIII: Frederick Douglass and Familyin Photographs and Prints
  95. Walter O. Evans’s Frederick Douglass and Family Album
  96. 64. John Chester Buttre, Frederick Douglass [c. 1853]
  97. 65. Anon., [Charles Remond Douglass] [c. 1863]
  98. 66. Anon., [Lewis Henry Douglass] [c. 1863]
  99. 67. Anon., Lewis Henry Douglass [c. 1870]
  100. 68. Anon., Mathew Brady, Frederick Douglass [c. 1877]
  101. 69. Anon., Frederick Douglass and Unidentified Family Members, Cedar Hill [c. 1891]
  102. 70. Anon., Dennis (or Denys) Bourdon, Notman Photographic Company, Joseph Henry Douglass and Frederick Douglass (May 10, 1894)
  103. 71. Anon., Charles Remond, Joseph Henry, and Lewis Henry Douglass (February 1895)
  104. 72. Anon., Charles Remond, Joseph Henry, and Lewis Henry Douglass (February 1895)
  105. 73. John Howe Kent, Charles Remond Douglass, Rochester, NY [c. 1890s]
  106. 74. Anon., Maj. Charles Remond Douglass: Commander Frederick Douglass Post No. 21, Department of the Potomac, G.A. R. [n.d.]
  107. 75. Anon., Charles Remond Douglass [n.d.]
  108. 76. Anon., Charles Remond Douglass [n.d.]
  109. 77. E. Paul Tilghman, Lewis Henry Douglass, New Bedford, MA [n.d.]
  110. 78. Anon., Lewis Henry Douglass and unidentifi ed children [n.d.]
  111. 79. Anon., Unveiling of Frederick Douglass Monument [June 9, 1899]
  112. 80. John Howe Kent, Frederick Douglass Monument, Rochester, NY [c. 1899]
  113. 81. Anon., Haley G. Douglass, Highland Beach, MD (1895)
  114. 82. Anon., Charles A. Fraser [c. 1882]
  115. 83. Anon., [Unidentified Woman] [n.d.]
  116. 84. Anon., [Unidentified Woman in a Rural Landscape] [n.d.]
  117. 85. Anon., Haley George Douglass and Evelyn Virginia Dulaney Douglass [n.d.]
  118. 86. Anon., [Exterior Landscape, Three Unidentifi ed Male Children] [n.d.]
  119. Part IX: Frederick Douglass and Family Resources
  120. Walter O. Evans Frederick Douglassand Family Collection Inventory
  121. Public and Private Archivesand Repositories
  122. Further Reading
  123. Part X: Helen Amelia Loguen Correspondence
  124. Helen Amelia Loguen Correspondence in the Walter O. Evans Collection Inventory
  125. Afterword
  126. Index