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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass encompasses eleven
chapters that recount Douglass's life as a slave and his ambition
to become a free man. In factual detail, the text describes the
events of his life and is considered to be one of the most
influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist of the
early 19th century in the United States.
This Norton Critical Edition includes: Nick Bromell and R.
Blakeslee Gilpin's introduction to Frederick Douglass's second
autobiography, providing the deep contextualisation teachers want
and students need. The first edition text (1855), accompanied by
the editors' detailed explanatory footnotes. Twelve contemporary
works that relate to My Bondage and My Freedom, including writings
by Frederick Douglass, Benjamin Franklin, William Lloyd Garrison,
Henry David Thoreau, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Harriet Jacobs.
Nineteen critical assessments of My Bondage and My Freedom-nine
contemporary and ten recent interpretations-to inspire classroom
discussion and research topics across the curriculum A chronology
of Frederick Douglass's life and work and a selected bibliography.
Frederick Douglass' 1845 Narrative is accompanied by a preface and
explanatory footnotes. Included are contemporary perspectives,
along with essays, a chronology and bibliography.
Douglass's graphic depictions of slavery, harrowing escape to freedom, and life as newspaper editor, eloquent orator, and impassioned abolitionist.
One of the most influential works of literature during the
abolitionist movement of the early nineteenth century, Narrative of
the Life of Frederick Douglass recounts with powerful eloquence and
detail the author’s life as a slave and his eventual escape to
the North. This Norton Library edition features the original 1845
text and explanatory endnotes that clarify obscure terms and
references. An introduction by Joshua Bennett provides historical
background, highlights some of the narrative’s key themes, and
assesses the enduring legacy of Frederick Douglass’s vital work.
Ex-slave Frederick Douglass's second autobiography-written after
ten years of reflection following his legal emancipation in 1846
and his break with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison-catapulted
Douglass into the international spotlight as the foremost spokesman
for American blacks, both freed and slave. Written during his
celebrated career as a speaker and newspaper editor, "My Bondage
and My Freedom" reveals the author of the "Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass" (1845) grown more mature, forceful, analytical,
and complex with a deepened commitment to the fight for equal
rights and liberties.
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by John David Smith"
Universally recognized today as one of the most important and
influential Americans of the nineteenth century, Frederick Douglass
rose to prominence in the national abolitionist movement before and
during the Civil War by virtue of the vividness and power with
which, drawing on his personal experiences of enslavement and
freedom, he spoke and wrote against American slavery and he
continued to propound his vision of an America that would afford
freedom, equality, and opportunity to all long after slavery was
formally abolished. This edition offers a selection of Douglass's
most significant writing and oratory from throughout his long
career, including the complete texts of Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which has become a classic
example of the slave narrative genre, and The Heroic Slave,
Douglass's only published work of fiction, together with excerpts
from Douglass's other autobiographical writings and key speeches he
gave both before and after the Civil War. The edition also provides
clear and thorough annotations for the assistance of the student
reader and a range of contextual materials, including responses to
Douglass's Narrative and photographs of Douglass. As an
introduction to Douglass's life and work that balances breadth and
concision, this edition is well suited for a variety of
undergraduate courses in American history and literary studies.
This volume is one of a number of editions that have been drawn
from the pages of the acclaimed Broadview Anthology of American
Literature; like the others, it is designed to make a range of
material from the anthology available in a format convenient for
use in a wide variety of contexts.
A new edition of the classic African American autobiography, now
with with the inclusion of Douglass's other works. The pre-eminent
American slave narrative published in 1845, the Narrative
powerfully details the life of the abolitionist Frederick Douglass
from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in
1838: how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities
of his owners and drivers, how he learned to read and write, and
how he grew into a man who could only live free or die. Also
included in this edition are Douglass's famous oration The Meaning
of the Fourth of July to the Negro and his only known work of
fiction, the novella The Heroic Slave. Frederick Augustus
Washington Bailey was born into slavery in 1818 in Tuckahoe,
Maryland. He changed his surname to Douglass to conceal his
identity after escaping slavery in 1838 and making his way to
Philadelphia and New York. Having been taught to read by the wife
of one of his former owners, Douglass wrote later that literacy was
his 'pathway from slavery to freedom', and in 1845 he published his
instantly bestselling Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
an American Slave. Renowned as the foremost African American
advocate against slavery and segregation of his time, he repeatedly
risked his own freedom as an antislavery lecturer, writer and
publisher. He died in Washington, D.C., in 1895, and after lying in
state in the nation's capital, was buried in the Mount Hope
Cemetery in Rochester, New York. Ira Dworkin is Associate Director
of the Prince Alwaleed Center for American Studies and Research and
Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at The
American University in Cairo.
Essential reading for students of African-American history, this
collection represents three highly influential leaders. Washington
and Douglass, both born into slavery, recount their rise from
bondage to international recognition. Du Bois' landmark essays
counsel a more aggressive approach to the civil rights movement.
The powerful story of slavery that has become a classic of American
autobiography, now in an authoritative edition. This dramatic
autobiography of the early life of an American slave was first
published in 1845, when its young author had just achieved his
freedom. Douglass' eloquence gives a clear indication of the
powerful principles that led him to become the first great
African-American leader in the United States. *** Frederick
Douglass was born into slavery in 1818, and after his escape in
1838 repeatedly risked his own freedom as an antislavery speaker,
writer and publisher.
The most famous memoir of its kind and a key text in the
anti-slavery movement, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
tells the striking and emotionally charged story of one man's
journey from slavery to freedom. Complete & Unabridged. Part of
the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning,
clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon
markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for
any book lover. This edition is introduced by Dr Lydia Plath. Born
into a life of slavery in Maryland in 1818, Frederick Douglass
spent his youth passed from master to master, from city to field,
and subjected to unimaginable cruelty. Along this journey he sought
knowledge, he learned to read and write, and he discovered that
education was his key to salvation. Using everything he learned and
fuelled by all he was forced to endure, Douglass managed to escape
and then, eventually, to free himself from slavery. Narrative of
the Life of Frederick Douglass, a startlingly honest account of his
struggle, played a fundamental role in the abolition of slavery, a
movement that Douglass dedicated his life to.
'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 name only. 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 his determination not only to speak but to
write 'just the word that seemed to me the word to be written by
me.' This new edition examines Douglass's biography, literary
strategies and political activism alongside his depiction of Black
women's lives and his narrative histories of Black heroism. This
volume also reproduces Frederick Douglass's only work of fiction,
The Heroic Slave, published in 1853.
This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two
most important African American slave narratives into one volume.
Frederick Douglass's Narrative, first published in 1845, is an
enlightening and incendiary text. Born into slavery, Douglass
became the preeminent spokesman for his people during his life; his
narrative is an unparalleled account of the dehumanizing effects of
slavery and Douglass's own triumph over it. Like Douglass, Harriet
Jacobs was born into slavery, and in 1861 she published Incidents
in the Life of a Slave Girl, now recognized as the most
comprehensive antebellum slave narrative written by a woman.
Jacobs's account broke the silence on the exploitation of African
American female slaves, and it remains crucial reading. These
narratives illuminate and inform each other. This edition includes
an incisive Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah and extensive
annotations.
"From the Trade Paperback edition."
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of
best-loved, essential classics. You have seen how a man was made a
slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. Born into slavery
during the early nineteenth century, Frederick Douglass escaped to
freedom before he was twenty-one years old. From the moment he
arrived in New York City, he felt a need to tell his story, one
that mirrored so many people still enslaved in the South with no
hope of escape. As an orator and preacher, Douglass was an
abolitionist, supporter of women's suffrage and staunch defender of
equality for all. In his first autobiographical work, published in
1845, The Narrative of Frederick Douglass describes how he went
from slave to a free man.
"We've railed against injustice for decade upon decade, a lifetime
of struggle and progress and enlightenment that we see etched in
Fredrick Douglass's mighty, leonine gaze." -Barack Obama "My
Bondage and my Freedom, besides giving a fresh impulse to
antislavery literature, shows upon its pages the untiring industry
of the ripe scholar."-William Wells Brown My Bondage and my Freedom
(1845), a classic of American History writing and one of the most
influential and ennobling autobiographies ever written, was
composed while Fredrick Douglas was at his heights as an orator and
writer. At the time of writing, Douglass had also reached the
pinnacle of his work as a leader in the abolitionist movement and
as an influential newspaper publisher. This incisive and eloquent
book is at once an extraordinary story of resilience and a
meditation on power, education, and freedom. The depictions of
Fredrick Douglass's early life on a Maryland slave plantation, the
series of relocations and abuses under various overseers, and his
eventual freedom are an extraordinarily vivid portrait of the
United States leading up to the beginning of the Civil War. My
Bondage and my Freedom is a brilliant account of a singular life
and as well as a scathing reproach to one of the darkest episodes
of American history. With an eye-catching new cover, and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of My Bondage and
my Freedom is both modern and readable.
In addition to a thoughtful selection of the essays, speeches, and
autobiographical writings of Frederick Douglass, this anthology
provides an illuminating Introduction; a timeline of Douglass'
life; footnotes that introduce individuals, quotations, and events;
and a selected bibliography.
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