Clarence Walkerlink is Professor of History at University of California, Davis. Educated at University of California Berkeley, his publications include: We Can't Go Home Again: An Argument About Afrocentrism, "Asante?s Aposteori? in Chretien, Fauvelle, and Perrot, Afrocentrisme: Histoire, Memoire, Identities , Recomposee?s, ?Denial Is Not A River In Egypt: Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson? in History, Memory, and Civic Culture , Edited By Jan Lewis and Peter Onuf, and ?If Everybody was a King, who Built the Pyramids?: Afrocentrism and Black American History,? in Emerging Structures, ed., Rudi Keller and Karl Menges. Recently he served as academic advisor to the PBS American Experience television series : Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (2004).
For more information on F. Douglass and other related resources check out our weblinks below
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845)
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/Douglass/
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
Fourth of July Speech (1852) By Fredrick Douglass http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2927.html (excerpt)
http://www.thisnation.com/library/print/douglassfourthjuly2.html (entire speech)
Extract from A Lecture on Slavery, at Rochester, December 8, 1850
http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/hst/biography/MyBondageandMyFreedom/chap30.html
Websites about Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/doughome.html
People of Faith (PBS) > Frederick Douglass
http://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/people/frederick_douglass.html
American Visionaries : Frederick Douglass
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/douglass/
American Writers Series : Frederick Douglass
http://www.americanwriters.org/writers/douglass.asp
Africans in America: Frederick Douglass
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1539.html
Frederick Douglass in Britain
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Portraits/rice-douglass.html
Biography of Frederick Douglass, Sandra Thomas (Rochester)
http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/DOUGLASS/home.html
Frederick Douglass Comes to Life
http://www.frederickdouglass.org/
Other resources
North American Slave Narratives > Documenting the American South Online ollection includes all the existing autobiographical narratives of fugitive and former slaves published as broadsides, pamphlets, or books in English up to 1920. (e.g. Mary Prince, Venture Smith, Olaudah Equiano, Solomon Northup, and more)
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/index.html
Charles Ball Fifty Years in Chains, or, The Life of an American Slave. (full text of the book online) http://docsouth.unc.edu/ball/menu.html
Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932. The House Behind the Cedars(full text of the book online) http://docsouth.unc.edu/chesnutthouse/menu.html
Henry McNeal Turner (1834-1915)
http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/turneral/bio.html
Books
Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery by James Brewer Stewart.a basic history of the abolitionist movement beginning with the period of the American Revolutionlink to Amazon
The Barber of Natchez; by Edwin Davis and William Hogan In 1938 the 2,000 page diary of William Johnson of Natchez, Mississippi was discovered along with numerous other personal and legal documents. The widow of Johnson's grandson made possible the publication of the diary in 1951 which led to publication ofThe Barber of Natchezin 1954.link to Amazon
Great Slave Narratives by Arna Wendell Bontemps link to Amazon
The Classic Slave Narratives by Henry Louis, Jr. Gates link to Amazon
The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts, Henry Louis Gates Jr. link to Amazon
