My Bondage & My Freedom [Unabridged Edition]

by Frederick Douglass

Overview

The second in the series of three autobiographies penned by Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom picks up where Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass left off. This volume recounts more gripping details of Douglass' transformation from illiterate slave to leading light of the abolitionist movement and offers an extended philosophical meditation on the meaning of slavery.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012343710
Publisher:	Lions Gate Classics
Publication date:	03/25/2011
Series:	Lions Gate Classics , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	334 KB

About the Author

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing. He stood as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves did not have the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. In fact, even many Northerners found it hard to believe that such a great orator could possibly have been a slave.

Hometown:

Tuckahoe, Maryland

Date of Birth:

1818

Date of Death:

February 20, 1895

Place of Death:

Washington, D.C.