This classic is revisited with a new introduction and annotations by celebrated Douglass scholar David W. 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 is an essential work in African-American and American history, and displays Douglass’ developing strength as a writer and political leader.”-Richard Slotkin, Wesleyan Universityīorn 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. “David Blight has produced a fine edition of Douglass’ second autobiography.
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