IV. History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America.  By Henry Wilson. 3 vols. (Boston, 1872:  James R. Osgood & Co.) The author presents an admirable summary of the life and mission of Mr. Douglass.

V. William Lloyd Garrison and His Times.  By Oliver Johnson.  (Boston, 1881:  Houghton, Mifflin & Co.) One of the best works on the anti-slavery agitation, by one of its most able, active and courageous promoters.

VI. Century Magazine, November, 1881, “My Escape from Slavery.”  By Frederick Douglass.

VII. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.  Written by himself.  (Hartford, 1882:  Park Publishing Company.)

VIII. History of the Negro Race in America.  By George W. Williams. 2 vols. (New York, 1883:  G. P. Putnam’s Sons.) This exhaustive and scholarly work contains an estimate of Douglass’s career by an Afro-American author.

IX. The Life and Times of Wendell Phillips.  By George Lowell Austin.  (Boston, 1888:  Lee & Shepard.) Contains a eulogy on Wendell Phillips by Mr. Douglass.

X. Life and Times of William Lloyd Garrison.  By his children. 4 vols. (New York, 1889:  The Century Company.  London:  T. Fisher Unwin.) Here are many details of the public services of Mr. Douglass,—­his relations to the Garrisonian abolitionists, his political views, his oratory, etc.

XI. The Cosmopolitan, August, 1889.  “Reminiscences.”  By Frederick Douglass.  In “The Great Agitation Series.”

XII. Frederick Douglass, the Colored Orator.  By Frederick May Holland. (New York, 1891:  Funk & Wagnalls.) This volume is one of the series of “American Reformers,” and with the exception of his own books is the only comprehensive life of Douglass so far published.  It contains selections from many of his best speeches and a full list of his numerous publications.

XIII. Our Day, August, 1894.  “Frederick Douglass as Orator and Reformer.”  By W. L. Garrison [(1838-1909), the first son and namesake of the Abolitionist leader (1805-1879)].

XIV. The Underground Railroad.  By William H. Siebert.  With an introduction by Albert Bushnell Hart. (New York, 1898:  The Macmillan Company.) Contains many references to Mr. Douglass’s services in aiding the escape of fugitive slaves.