Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies (Loa #68): Narrative of the Life / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times Hardcover - 1994
by Frederick Douglass; Henry Louis Gates (Editor)
Born in slavery, Douglass, educated himself, escaped, and became one of the greatest leaders in American history. Here in one volume are his three autobiographical narratives: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (1845); My Bondage and My Freedom (1855); and Life and Times (1881).
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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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- Title Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies (Loa #68): Narrative of the Life / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times
- Author Frederick Douglass; Henry Louis Gates (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 1126
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Library of America, New York
- Date 1994-02-01
- ISBN 9780940450790 / 0940450798
- Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
- Dimensions 8.17 x 5.28 x 1.4 in (20.75 x 13.41 x 3.56 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects Abolitionists - United States, Douglass, Frederick
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93024168
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Citations
- Library Journal, 03/01/1994, Page 94
- Publishers Weekly, 01/03/1994, Page 68
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