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My bondage and my freedom / Frederick Douglass ; edited, with a foreword and notes, by John Stauffer.
LIBRA E449 .D738 2003c
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
- Series:
- Modern Library classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
- Douglass, Frederick.
- African American abolitionists--Biography.
- African American abolitionists.
- Abolitionists--United States--Biography.
- Abolitionists.
- Plantation life.
- History.
- Enslaved persons.
- Social conditions.
- Fugitive slaves.
- United States.
- Maryland.
- Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.
- Antislavery movements.
- Fugitive slaves--Maryland--Biography.
- Enslaved persons--Maryland--Social conditions--19th century.
- Plantation life--Maryland--History--19th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- lv, 321 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- Modern Library paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Modern Library, 2003.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-321).
- ISBN:
- 0812970314
- OCLC:
- 52295323
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