Frederick Douglass lived in Anacostia in Washington, DC the last 20 years of his life. His house still stands, though it has been closed to tourists due to the pandemic. It has thousands of his books, among them (listed by year of publication):
- -800s: Homer: Iliad (Pope translation), Odyssey
- -700s:
- -600s: Hesiod
- -500s: Theognis
- -400s:
- -300s:
- -200s:
- -100s:
- -000s: Cicero: Orations
- 000s:
- 100s: Marcus Aurelius: Meditations
- 200s:
- 300s: Bible *
- 400s:
- 500s:
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- 900s:
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- 1100s:
- 1200s:
- 1300s:
- 1400s:
- 1500s:
- 1600s:
- 1616: Shakespeare: Complete Works *
- 1680: Morgan Godwyn: Negro and Indians Advocate, Suing for Their Admission Into the Church
- 1700s:
- 1747: John Gast: History of Greece
- 1751: Voltaire: The Age of Louis XIV
- 1766: Oliver Goldsmith: The Vicar of Wakefield
- 1774: Goethe: Sorrows of Young Werther
- 1789: Edward Gibbon: Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire
- 1789: Rousseau: Confessions
- 1789: US Constitution
- 1791: Jeremy Bentham: Panopticon
- 1792: T. Wilkins: History of Jane Grey, Queen of England
- 1793: John Whitehead: The Life of Rev. John Wesley
- 1800s:
- 1817: Caleb Bingham: Columbian Orator *
- 1817: US Government: State Papers and Publick Documents of the United States in Ten Volumes
- 1824: Byron: Don Juan
- 1832: N.H. Keene: History of the United States from the 1st Settlement As Colonies to the Close of the War With Great Britain in 1815
- 1837: Benjamin Disraeli: Henrietta Temple
- 1838: John Greenleaf Whittier: Poems
- 1840: Dionysius Lardner: The Steam Engine Explained & Illustrated
- 1840: Thomas Fowell Buxton: The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy
- 1841: John Keats: Poetical Works
- 1841: Feuerbach: Essence of Christianity
- 1842: Robert Burns: Complete Poetical Works *
- 1843: Samuel Davidson: Introduction to the New Testament, Volume I: the Gospels
- 1845: Alexander Humboldt: Kosmos
- 1846: Alexandre Dumas: Count of Monte Cristo
- 1846: Tennyson: Poems
- 1847: William Wells Brown: Narrative of a Fugitive Slave
- 1850: Sojourner Truth: Narrative
- 1850: Hawthorne: Scarlet Letter
- 1852: William Lloyd Garrison: Speeches
- 1853: Charles Dickens: Bleak House *
- 1853: Solomon Northup: Twelve Years a Slave
- 1856: J. Leighton Wilson: Western Africa: Its History, Condition, and Prospects
- 1857: David Livingstone: Missionary Travelers
- 1857: David Christy: Ethiopia: Her Gloom and Glory As Illustrated in the History of the Slave Trade and Slavery; the Rise of the Republic of Liberia and the Progress of African Mission
- 1858: Jonas Hartzel: Bible Vindicated a Series of Essays on American Slavery
- 1861: Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- 1861: Frederick Law Olmstead: A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy
- 1862: Victor Hugo: Les Miserables
- 1863: Frances Anne Kemble: Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-39
- 1865: Lydia Maria Child: The Freedmen’s Book
- 1866: Henry Thomas Buckle: History of Civilization in England
- 1866: Horace Greeley: The American Conflict
- 1869: M.B. Bird: The Black Man; or Haytian Independence
- 1869: Edward A. Pollard: Secret History of the Confederacy
- 1873: John Gamgee: Yellow Fever a Nautical Disease
- 1875: Georg Ebers: An Egyptian Princess; an Historical Novel
- 1879: Martin Delany: Principal of Ethnology: the Origin of Races and Color, with an Archeological Compendium of Ethiopian and Egyptian Civilization
- 1886: Cunard Steamship Company: Official Guide and Album
- 1886: Charles Eyre Pascoe: London of to- Day
- 1891: Encyclopaedia Britannica
- 1893: Jose Freire: The State of Ceara
- 1893: Monroe Alphus Majors: Noted Negro Women Their Triumphs and Activities
* = among his favourites.
– Abagond, 2021.
Sources: Lapham’s Quarterly (2019), The Art of Manliness (2014), National Park Service (see the full list).
See also:
- Frederick Douglass
- books
- What Malcolm X read in prison
- libraries: Alexandria, Nag Hammadi, Augustine, Timbuktu, Jefferson, Thoreau, Captain Nemo
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