My Bondage and My Freedom - Paperback
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Frederick Douglass, David W. BlightPublish date:2014-01-28Pages:432
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Yale University PressISBN-13:9780300190595ISBN-10:030019059XUPC:9780300190595Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Historical, Adventurers & Explorers, United StatesBook Topic:19th CenturySize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCY0R0V5VW
"David Blight has produced a fine edition of Douglass' second autobiography. 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 University Born 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. 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 classic is revisited with a new introduction and annotations by celebrated Douglass scholar David W. Blight. Blight situates the book within the politics of the 1850s and illuminates how My Bondage represents Douglass as a mature, confident, powerful writer who crafted some of the most unforgettable metaphors of slavery and freedom--indeed of basic human universal aspirations for freedom--anywhere in the English language.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Yale University PressISBN-13:9780300190595ISBN-10:030019059XUPC:9780300190595Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Historical, Adventurers & Explorers, United StatesBook Topic:19th CenturySize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCY0R0V5VW
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was an American social reformer, orator, author, and statesman. David W. Blight is professor of American history at Yale University and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.
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