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

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Main Author
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Related Names
Blight, David W.
Language(s)
English
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
Subjects
Douglass, Frederick, > 1818-1895
Douglass, Frederick, > 1818-1895.
Douglass, Frederick, > 1818-1895
Biographies, memoirs and correspondance.
History.
African Americans.
Social conditions.
Slavery.
Abolition.
Maryland.
United States of America.
Enslaved persons > Social conditions
Plantation life
Fugitive slaves
Antislavery movements
African American abolitionists
Abolitionists
Vie dans les plantations > Maryland > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Esclaves > Maryland > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Esclaves fugitifs > Maryland > Biographies.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Abolitionnistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Abolitionnistes noirs américains > Biographies.
Plantation life > Maryland > History > 19th century.
Enslaved persons > Maryland > Social conditions > 19th century.
Fugitive slaves > Maryland > Biography.
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century
Abolitionists > United States > Biography
African American abolitionists > Biography
United States
Maryland
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies
History
Biographies
autobiographies (literary works)
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.
Note
"First published in the United States of America by Miller, Orton & Mulligan 1855. This edition published by Yale University Press 2014. Introduction and notes copyright 2014 by David W. Blight."
Physical Description
xxx, 395 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBN
030019059X
9780300190595
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