In the Words of Frederick Douglass -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: A Life of Reform -- Frederick Douglass Chronology -- The Words of Frederick Douglass -- Abolition -- African American Character -- Alcohol -- Animals -- Aristocracy -- Art -- Assimilation -- Autobiography -- Boasting -- Capital Punishment -- Children -- Christmas -- Cities -- Civil Rights -- Civil War -- Class -- Colonization -- Conscience -- Constitution -- Crime -- Death -- Declaration of Independence -- Disagreement -- Diversity -- Education -- Emancipation -- Emigration -- Employment -- Evolution -- Family -- Fathers -- Firsts -- Fourth of July -- France -- Free Blacks -- Free Speech -- Freedom -- Freedman's Savings and Trust Bank -- Friendship -- Fugitive Slaves -- Government -- Great Britain -- Haiti -- Harpers Ferry -- History -- Home -- Humanity -- Human Rights -- Humor -- Immigration -- Individuality -- Inertia -- Innocence -- Ireland -- Justice -- Labor -- Law -- Liberty -- Lies -- Life -- Luck -- Lynching -- Morality -- Mothers -- Murder -- Native Americans -- Nature -- Necessity -- Nostalgia -- Oppression -- Optimism -- Oratory -- Parenting -- Patriotism -- Peace -- People -- Photography -- Politics -- Poverty -- The Press -- Principles -- Progress -- Property -- Prosperity -- Public Opinion -- Racism -- Realism -- Reconstruction -- Reform -- Religion -- Resignation -- Respect -- Revolution -- Sectional Reconciliation -- Self-Awareness -- Self-Defense -- Slaveholders -- Slavery -- Slaves -- Sleep -- Success -- Suffrage -- Tariffs -- Time -- Travel -- Trust -- Truth -- Underground Railroad -- Usefulness -- Vices -- Virtues -- War -- Women -- Note on Editorial Method -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.