My bondage and my freedom
By: Frederick Douglass ; edited, with a foreword and notes, by John Stauffer.
Contributors: Stauffer, John.
Edition: Modern Library pbk. ed.
Series: Modern Library classics
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895; African American abolitionists -- Biography; Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography; Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Fugitive slaves -- Maryland -- Biography; Slaves -- Maryland -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Plantation life -- Maryland -- History -- 19th century
Genres: Biography.
Description: ""My Bondage and My Freedom," writes John Stauffer in his Foreword, "[is] a deep meditation on the meaning of slavery, race, and freedom, and on the power of faith and literacy, as well as a portrait of an individual and a nation a few years before the Civil War." As his narrative unfolds, Frederick Douglass - abolitionist, journalist, orator, and one of the most powerful voices to emerge from the American civil rights movement - transforms himself from slave to fugitive to reformer, leaving behind a legacy of social, intellectual, and political thought. Set from the text of the 1855 first edition, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes Douglass's original Appendix, composed of excerpts from the author's speeches as well as a letter he wrote to his former master."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-321).
Originally published: New York : Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855.