My bondage and my freedom

by Douglass, Frederick

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Title Statements

Full title :My bondage and my freedom / Frederick Douglass ; introduction and notes by David W. Blight.

Summary

Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and became a passionate advocate for abolition and social change and the foremost spokesperson for the nation's enslaved African American population in the years preceding the Civil War. My Bondage and My Freedom is Douglass's masterful recounting of his remarkable life and a fiery condemnation of a political and social system that would reduce people to property and keep an entire race in chains. This classic is revisited with a new introduction and annotations by celebrated Douglass scholar David W. Blight. Blight situates the book within the politics of the 1850s and illuminates how My Bondage represents Douglass as a mature, confident, powerful writer who crafted some of the most unforgettable metaphors of slavery and freedom--indeed of basic human universal aspirations for freedom--anywhere in the English language.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Yale University Press
Place of Publication:New Haven
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2014.

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The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (395 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780300199338, 0300199333, 1306370396, 9781306370394
DOI:10.12987/9780300199338
oclc:ocn868964231
LC Classification:E449
Dewey Decimal:973.8092

Subjects

Abolitionists Abolitionists -- Biography. -- United S… Abolitionnistes -- Biographies. -- État… Abolitionnistes noirs américains -- Bio… African American abolitionists African American abolitionists -- Biogr… Antislavery movements Antislavery movements -- History -- 19t… Biographies BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical Douglass, Frederick Enslaved persons -- Social conditions -… Esclaves -- Conditions sociales -- 19e … Esclaves fugitifs -- Biographies. -- Ma… Fugitive slaves Fugitive slaves -- Biography. -- Maryla… History HISTORY -- State & Local -- United Stat… Maryland Mouvements antiesclavagistes -- Histoir…