My bondage and my freedom / Frederick Douglass ; edited by with an introduction and notes by Celeste-Marie Bernier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895, author.

Contributor:

Bernier, Celeste-Marie, editor.

Series:

Oxford world's classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.

Douglass, Frederick.

Enslaved persons--United States--Biography.

Enslaved persons.

United States.

African American abolitionists--Biography.

African American abolitionists.

Abolitionists--United States--Biography.

Abolitionists.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (448 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Appearing in 1855, 'My Bondage and My Freedom' is the second autobiography written by Frederick Douglass (1818-95), a man who was born into slavery in Maryland and who went on to become the most famous antislavery author, orator, philosopher, essaysist, historian, intellectual, statesman and freedom-fighter in US history. An instant bestseller, Douglass's autobiography tells the story of his early life as lived in 'bondage' and of his later life as lived in a 'freedom' that was in name only. Recognising that his body and soul were bought and sold by white slaveholders in the US South, he soon realised his story was being traded by white northern antislavery campaigners.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on publisher information.

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Print version :

ISBN:

9780191920219

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