Author:
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895, author.
Edition Statement:First edition.
ImprintNew York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2021]
Descriptionxvi, 485 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Note:Introduction -- The text of My bondage and my freedom -- Life as a Slave -- Life as a Freeman -- Appendix -- Reception Speech / [Frederick Douglass] -- Dr. Campbell's Reply / Reverend Dr. Campbell -- Letter to His Old Master ; from The Nature of Slavery ; from Inhumanity of Slavery ; from What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? ; from The Internal Slave Trade ; from The Slavery Party ; from The Anti-Slavery Movement / [Frederick Douglass] -- Contexts -- from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin / Benjamin Franklin -- from The Liberator / William Lloyd Garrison -- The Constitution and Slavery ; ["The Change in Our Opinion"] / Frederick Douglass -- from Walden / Henry David Thoreau -- What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? / Frederick Douglass -- from Uncle Tom's Cabin / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Letter to Harriet Beecher Stowe / Frederick Douglass -- Letter to William Lloyd Garrison / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- The Doom of the Black Power ; The Trials and Triumphs of Self-Made Men / Frederick Douglass -- From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl / Harriet Jacobs -- Criticism -- Contemporary Criticism -- ["A Style at Once Terse, Vigorous, Frank, and Ingenuous"] / Anonymous -- Books and Negrophilism / Anonymous --["This Plain Biography of a Living Man"] / Anonymous -- ["It Is No Fiction"] / Anonymous -- ["His Mind Is Essentially Original"] / Anonymous -- Preface to the German Translation of My Bondage and My Freedom / Ottilie Assing -- ["Eloquent Fugitive"] / William Wells Brown -- ["His Style Is Peculiarly His Own"] / James Monroe Gregory -- ["Rather a Rare Book"] / Frederic May Holland -- Recent Criticism -- from Binary Oppositions in Chapter One of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave Written by Himself / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- [Neither Individualism nor Authoritarianism] / William L. Andrews -- [Slavery, Work, and Song in Douglass's Autobiographies] / Nick K. Bromell -- The Black Man and the Brotherhood / Robert S. Levine -- from Talking Lawyerlike about Law / Jeannine DeLombard -- Frederick Douglass in 1848 / Cody Marrs -- from Amoral Abolitionism: Frederick Douglass and the Environmental Case against Slavery / Cristin Ellis -- from Comparative Freedom and Marronage in Frederick Douglass / Neil Roberts -- from "A Black Sister to Massachusetts": Latin America and the Fugitive Democratic Ethos of Frederick Douglass / Juliet Hooker.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-485).
Note:"My Bondage and My Freedom, the second autobiography of Frederick Douglass, focuses on his life as a slave, and the years after. It also describes his early travels and acquaintances, and the abolitionist movement. In his lifetime, Frederick Douglass became nationally prominent as an abolitionist, author, and speaker. This Norton Critical Edition includes the original text and appendix of My Bondage and My Freedom, which includes several letters and excerpts. "Contexts" provides readers with influences, such as memoirs and slave narratives. This section allows the reader to envision how the memoir as a literary format could be used to elicit change and opinion. "Criticism" provides readers with contemporary and modern perspectives on My Bondage and My Freedom, and addresses the author's style, thoughts on law and slavery, and man in relation to his environment. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included."-- Provided by publisher.
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