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My bondage and my freedom / Frederick Douglass ; edited, with a foreword and notes, by John Stauffer.
- Title
- My bondage and my freedom / Frederick Douglass ; edited, with a foreword and notes, by John Stauffer.
- Author
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
- Publication
- New York : Modern Library, 2003.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Stauffer, John, 1965-
- Description
- lv, 321 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- ""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.
- Series Statement
- Modern Library classics
- Uniform Title
- Modern Library classics
- Subjects
- 1800-1899
- Enslaved persons > Maryland > Social conditions > 19th century
- Biographies
- History
- Plantation life > Maryland > History > 19th century
- Fugitive slaves > Maryland > Biography
- Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century
- Abolitionists > United States > Biography
- African American abolitionists > Biography
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-321).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Frederick Douglass -- Foreword / by John Stauffer -- A note on the text -- Editor's preface to the 1855 edition -- Introduction to the 1855 edition -- My bondage and my freedom. Part 1. Life as a slave ; Part 2. Life as a freeman -- Appendix. Containing extracts from speeches, etc.
- ISBN
- 0812970314 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2003053976
- OCLC
- 52295323
- SCSB-12116364
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library