| My Bondage and My Freedom Contributor(s): Douglass, Frederick (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252014103 ISBN-13: 9780252014109 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $27.72 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1987 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - Biography & Autobiography | Adventurers & Explorers - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 87005002 |
| Lexile Measure: 1210 |
| Series: Blacks in the New World |
| Physical Information: 0.99" H x 6.01" W x 8.98" (1.21 lbs) 344 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is the first annotated edition of a work Eric J. Sundquist has called "a classic text of the American Renaissance." As Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has pointed out, My Bondage and My Freedom has been largely ignored by critics, in part because it is longer and less accessible than Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass but also because it has not up to now been "read" by a sensitive critic. "The latter reason is paramount and urgently needed to be addressed, and William Andrews is just the person to introduce Douglass's second autobiography to our generation of readers. He has few peers in nineteenth-century black criticism." |