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African-American social reformer, writer, and abolitionist (c. 1818–1895)
Also known as: Fred Bailey, Freddie Bailey, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, Frederick Augustus Washington Baly, Фредерик Дуглас, فريدريك دوغلاس
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- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
- The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
- Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass (2002)
- The Frederick Douglass papers