''It was said to me, "Better have a little of the plantation manner of speech than not; ''tis not best that you seem too learned."''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 nameonly. Recognizing that his body and soul were bought and sold by white slaveholders in the US South, he soon realized his story was being traded by white northern antislavery campaigners. Douglass''s My Bondage and My Freedom is a literary, intellectual and philosophical tour-de-force in which he betrays hisdetermination not only to speak but to write ''just the word that
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For more than five decades, from the antebellum period through the Civil War and Reconstruction and into the Gilded Age, Frederick Douglass used his voice and wielded his pen in support of abolition and emancipation, equal rights, and human dignity, developing...
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An autobiography of author who was born into slavery in Maryland in 1818. He describes his life as a slave - the cruelty he suffered at the hands of plantation owners; his struggles to educate himself in a world where slaves are deliberately kept ignorant;...
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<b>Library of America presents the biggest, most comprehensive trade edition of Frederick Douglass''s writings ever published</b><br><br>Edited by Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer David W. Blight, this Library...
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