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My bondage and my freedom / Frederick Douglass ; introduction and notes by David W. Blight.

Title: My bondage and my freedom / Frederick Douglass ; introduction and notes by David W. Blight.
Author: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Publication: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]

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Blight, David W.

Description

xxx, 395 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

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.

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Biographies
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Note

"First published in the United States of America by Miller, Orton & Mulligan 1855. This edition published by Yale University Press 2014. Introduction and notes copyright 2014 by David W. Blight."

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Contents

MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM -- LIFE AS A SLAVE -- ch. I The Authors Childhood -- ch. II The Author Removed from His First Home -- ch. III The Authors Parentage -- ch. IV A General Survey of the Slave Plantation -- ch. V Gradual Initiation Into the Mysteries of Slavery -- ch. VI Treatment of Slaves on Lloyds Plantation -- ch. VII Life in the Great House -- ch. VIII A Chapter of Horrors -- ch. IX Personal Treatment of the Author -- ch. X Life in Baltimore -- ch. XI "A Change Came O'er the Spirit of My Dream." -- ch. XII Religious Nature Awakened -- ch. XIII The Vicissitudes of Slave Life -- ch. XIV Experience in St. Michael's.
Ch. XV Covey, the Negro Breaker -- ch. XVI Another Pressure of the Tyrant s Vice -- ch. XVII The Last Flogging -- ch. XVIII New Relations and Duties -- ch. XIX The Run-away Plot -- ch. XX Apprenticeship Life -- ch. XXI My Escape from Slavery -- LIFE AS A FREEMAN -- ch. XXII Liberty Attained -- ch. XXIII Introduced to the Abolitionists -- ch. XXIV Twenty-one Months in Great Britain -- ch. XXV Various Incidents -- APPENDIX, CONTAINING EXTRACTS FROM SPEECHES, ETC -- Reception Speech at Finsbury Chapel, Moorfields, England, May 12, 1846 -- Letter to His Old Master -- The Nature of Slavery -- Inhumanity of Slavery -- What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? -- The Internal Slave Trade -- The Slavery Party.

ISBN

9780300190595
030019059X

LCCN

2013018803

OCLC

849740757
SCSB-11447042

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library