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Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies (LOA #68) - Narrative of the Life / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies (LOA #68) - Narrative of the Life / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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Born a slave, Frederick Douglass educated himself, escaped, and
made himself one of the greatest leaders in American history. His
three autobiographical narratives, collected here in one volume,
are now recognized as classics of both American history and
American literature. Writing with the eloquence and fierce
intelligence that made him a brilliantly effective spokesman for
abolition and equal rights, Douglass shapes an inspiring vision of
self-realization in the face of monumental odds. Narrative of the
Life of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave (1845), published
seven years after his escape, was written in part as a response to
skeptics who refused to believe that so articulate an orator could
ever have been a slave. A powerfully compressed account of the
cruelty and oppression of the Maryland plantation culture into
which Douglass was born, it brought him to the forefront of the
anti-slavery movement and drew thousands, black and white, to the
cause. In My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), written after he had
established himself as a newspaper editor, Douglass expands the
account of his slavery years. With astonishing psychological
penetration, he probes the painful ambiguities and subtly corrosive
effects of black-white relations under slavery; and goes on to
account his determined resistance to segregation in the North. The
book also incorporates extracts from Douglass' renowned speeches,
including the searing "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, first published in 1881,
records Douglass' efforts to keep alive the struggle for racial
equality in the years following the Civil War. Now a socially and
politically prominent figure, he looksback, with a mixture of pride
and bitterness; on the triumphs and humiliations of a unique public
career. John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, William Lloyd Garrison, and
Harriet Beecher Stowe are all featured prominently in this
chronicle of a crucial epoch in American history. The revised
edition of 1893, presented here, includes an account of his
controversial diplomatic mission to Haiti. This volume contains a
detailed chronology of Douglass' life, notes providing further
background on the events and people mentioned, and an account of
the textual history of each of the autobiographies.
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