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My Bondage and My Freedom
Contributor(s): Douglass, Frederick (Author), Blight, David W. (Introduction by)
ISBN: 030019059X     ISBN-13: 9780300190595
Publisher: Yale University Press
OUR PRICE:   $17.82  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2014
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- Biography & Autobiography | Adventurers & Explorers
- History | United States - 19th Century
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2013018803
Lexile Measure: 1210
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (1.05 lbs) 432 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Topical - Black History
 
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Publisher Description:
"David Blight has produced a fine edition of Douglass' second autobiography. This is an essential work in African-American and American history, and displays Douglass' developing strength as a writer and political leader."--Richard Slotkin, Wesleyan University

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.


Contributor Bio(s): Blight, David W.: - David W. Blight is professor of American history and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.