My Bondage and My Freedom: Part I. Life as a Slave. Part II. Life as a Freeman.

ISBN-13: 9780743460590 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 416 str.

Frederick Douglass; John S. Wright; James M'Cune Smith

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My Bondage and My Freedom is the second of three published autobiographies from one of the most brilliant and eloquent abolitionists and human rights activists in American history. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave was published ten years before in 1845, while The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass was published twenty-five years later.

The second volume in Douglasss three great autobiographical narratives, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) was written after he had established himself as a newspaper editor. In this book, Douglass expands upon his previous account of his years as a slave. With great psychological penetration, he probes the long-term and corrosive effects of slavery and comments upon his active resistance to the segregation he encounters in the North. Frederick Douglass was a renowned orator and the text of one of his most powerful speeches "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" can by found in My Bondage and My Freedom.