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• Orators

• Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Aus Einer Alten Advokatenrepublik (Demosthenes und Seine Zeit); Mit Einem Anhange, Der Krieg als Erwecker Literarischer Kunstformen (Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Altertums v8, no 3/4, in German; Paderborn: F. Schöningh, 1916), by Engelbert Drerup (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Frederick Douglass, the Orator: Containing an Account of His Life, His Eminent Public Services, His Brilliant Career as Orator, Selections from His Speeches and Writings (Springfield, MA: Willey and Co., 1893), by James M. Gregory, contrib. by Frederick Douglass (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Frederick Douglass (London: Hodder and Stoughton, c1906), by Booker T. Washington (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Frederick Douglass, the Colored Orator (revised edition; New York: Funk and Wagnalls Co., 1895), by Frederic May Holland (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Speeches of Aeschines, by Aeschines, trans. by Charles Darwin Adams (HTML with commentary at Perseus)

• Extracts From a Review of the Parliamentary and Forensic Eloquence of the United States (Washington, 1834)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Negro Orators and Their Orations (Washington: Associated Publishers, c1925), ed. by Carter Godwin Woodson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Frederick Douglass, the Orator: Containing an Account of His Life, His Eminent Public Services, His Brilliant Career as Orator, Selections from His Speeches and Writings (Springfield, MA: Willey and Co., 1893), by James M. Gregory, contrib. by Frederick Douglass (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Hartford: Park Pub. Co., 1881), by Frederick Douglass, contrib. by George L. Ruffin (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Boston: De Wolfe and Fiske Co., c1892), by Frederick Douglass, contrib. by George L. Ruffin (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• My Bondage and My Freedom (New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1855), by Frederick Douglass, contrib. by James McCune Smith (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• My Bondage and My Freedom (c1855), by Frederick Douglass, contrib. by James McCune Smith
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at MOA
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845), by Frederick Douglass
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text
• Frederick Douglass (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1899), by Charles W. Chesnutt
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Frederick Douglass (London: Hodder and Stoughton, c1906), by Booker T. Washington (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Frederick Douglass: A Narrative (Washington: The author, 1921), by Leila Amos Pendleton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Frederick Douglass, the Colored Orator (revised edition; New York: Funk and Wagnalls Co., 1895), by Frederic May Holland (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Frederick Douglass (based on an 1899 edition, with some 21st-century annotations), by Charles W. Chesnutt (Gutenberg text)
• My Mother As I Recall Her (address delivered 1900, reprinted 1923), by Rosetta Douglass Sprague (page images at loc.gov)

• Frederick Douglass, the Colored Orator (revised edition; New York: Funk and Wagnalls Co., 1895), by Frederic May Holland (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Frederick Douglass, the Orator: Containing an Account of His Life, His Eminent Public Services, His Brilliant Career as Orator, Selections from His Speeches and Writings (Springfield, MA: Willey and Co., 1893), by James M. Gregory, contrib. by Frederick Douglass (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

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