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My bondage and my freedom / Frederick Douglass ; edited with an introduction and notes by John David Smith.

Title: My bondage and my freedom / Frederick Douglass ; edited with an introduction and notes by John David Smith.
Author: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Publication: New York : Penguin Books, 2003.

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Additional Authors

Smith, John David, 1949-

Description

lx, 366 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

"An outspoken abolitionist, Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in 1818, and after his escape in 1838, he repeatedly risked his own freedom as an antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher. My Bondage and My Freedom represents ten years of reflection following his legal emancipation in 1846 and his break with his mentor, William Lloyd Garrison. Upon its initial publication in 1855, this book catapulted Douglass into the international spotlight as the foremost spokesman for American blacks - free 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."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Penguin classics

Uniform Title

Penguin classics

Subjects

Genre/Form

Biographies
History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [lvii]-lx).

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / John David Smith -- The Author's Childhood -- Place of Birth -- Character of the District -- Time of Birth--My Grandparents -- Character of my Grandmother -- The Log Cabin--Its Charms -- First Knowledge of being a Slave -- Old Master--Griefs and Joys of Childhood -- Comparative Happiness of the Slave-Boy and his White Brother -- The Author Removed From His First Home -- The name "Old Master" a Terror -- Home Attractions--Dread of being removed from Tuckahoe -- The Journey to Col. Lloyd's Plantation -- Scene on reaching Old Master's -- First Meeting with my Brothers and Sisters -- Departure of Grandmother--Author's Grief -- The Author's Parentage -- Author's Father shrouded in Mystery -- My Mother--Her Personal Appearance -- Her Situation--Visits to her Boy -- Cruelty of "Aunt Katy"--Threatened Starvation -- My Mother's Interference -- Her Death -- Her Love of Knowledge -- Penalty for having a White Father -- A General Survey of the Slave Plantation -- Slaveholding Cruelty restrained by Public Opinion -- Isolation of Lloyd's Plantation -- Beyond the reach of Public Opinion -- Religion and Politics alike Excluded -- Natural and Artificial Charms of the Place -- The "Great House" -- Etiquette among Slaves -- The Comic Slave-Doctor -- Praying and Flogging -- Business of Old Master -- Sufferings from Hunger -- Jargon of the Plantation -- Family of Col. Lloyd--Mas' Daniel -- Family of Old Master--Social Position -- Gradual Initiation Into the Mysteries of Slavery -- Growing Acquaintance with Old Master--His Character.

ISBN

0140439188

LCCN

^^2002028992

OCLC

50322916
SCSB-12282598

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library