My Bondage and My Freedom (Penguin Classics)

My Bondage and My Freedom (Penguin Classics)

by Frederick Douglass (Author)

Synopsis

Written ten years after his legal emancipation, MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM catapulted Frederick Douglass into the international spotlight as a leading spokesperson for American blacks, both freed and in slavery. This, Douglass's second autobiography, was written during his celebrated career as a speaker and newpaper editor, and reveals a mature and forceful character utterly committed to the fight for equal rights and liberties.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 432
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 28 Aug 2003

ISBN 10: 0140439188
ISBN 13: 9780140439182

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My Bondage and My Freedom, besides giving a fresh impulse to antislavery literature, [shows] upon its pages the untiring industry of the ripe scholar. --William Wells Brown
Author Bio
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in 1818, and after his escape in 1838 repeatedly risked his own freedom as an antislavery speaker, writer and publisher. John David Smith is Distinguished Professor of History and Director of the Masters in Public History Program at North Carolina State University.