Frederick Douglass and Literary Crossroads

Frederick Douglass and Literary Crossroads consists of educational resources related to the study of Frederick Douglass's life and career, especially his first autobiography The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845). The production of the resources are made possible by a grant that Elizabeth Cali, Tisha Brooks, and I received from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

We hosted NEH summer institutes for schoolteachers in 2019 and 2021. 

• Editions of Frederick Douglass's Narrative

• Frederick Douglass, Aunt Hester, and the Narrative 

• The opening of Frederick Douglass's Narrative 

• A Pertinent Question by Frederick Douglass 

• Frederick Douglass and photographs 

• Reading Frederick Douglass's Narrative