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''My Bondage and My Freedom'' is an autobiographical
''Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights.''
New York: New York University Press, 2011, pp. 60–63. * Chaney, Michael A. "Picturing the Mother, Claiming Egypt: My Bondage and My Freedom as Auto(Bio)Ethnography." ''African American Review'' 35.3 (2001): 391–408. * Richardson, Mark
(pages 21–72). Rochester, New York: Camden House, 2019. * Stauffer, John. ''The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2002. (alk. paper) * Trafton, Scott Driskell. ''Egypt Land: Race and Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania''. New Americanists. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004.
publicly available e-text at the University of Virginia.
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''My Bondage and My Freedom'' is an autobiographical slave narrative
The slave narrative is a type of literary genre involving the (written) autobiographical accounts of enslaved Africans, particularly in the Americas. Over six thousand such narratives are estimated to exist; about 150 narratives were published as s ...
written by Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 1817 or 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became ...
and published in 1855. It is the second of three autobiographies written by Douglass, and is mainly an expansion of his first, ''Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
''Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass'' is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts. It is generally held to be the most famous of a numbe ...
''. The book depicts in greater detail his transition from bondage to liberty. Following this liberation, Douglass went on to become a prominent abolitionist, speaker, author, and advocate for women's rights.
The book included an introduction by James McCune Smith
James McCune Smith (April 18, 1813 – November 17, 1865) was an American physician, apothecary, abolitionist, and author who was born in Manhattan. He was the first African American to hold a medical degree from the University of Glasgow in Sco ...
, who Douglass called the "foremost black influence" of his life.Davis, David Brion. ''The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation''. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014:: 218.
See also
*''Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
''Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass'' is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts. It is generally held to be the most famous of a numbe ...
'' (1845), Douglass's first slave narrative memoir.
*'' The Heroic Slave, a heartwarming Narrative of the Adventures of Madison Washington, in Pursuit of Liberty'', (1852), a fiction book by Douglass based on the experiences of Madison Washington Madison Washington was an American enslaved man who led a slave rebellion in America on November 7, 1841, on board the brig '' Creole,'' which was transporting 134 other slaves from Virginia for sale in New Orleans, as part of the coastwise slave ...
.
*''Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
''Life and Times of Frederick Douglass'' is Frederick Douglass's third autobiography, published in 1881, revised in 1892. Because of the emancipation of American slaves during and following the American Civil War, Douglass gave more details about ...
'' (1881), Douglass's last autobiography.
References
Further reading
* Bernstein, Robin''Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights.''
New York: New York University Press, 2011, pp. 60–63. * Chaney, Michael A. "Picturing the Mother, Claiming Egypt: My Bondage and My Freedom as Auto(Bio)Ethnography." ''African American Review'' 35.3 (2001): 391–408. * Richardson, Mark
(pages 21–72). Rochester, New York: Camden House, 2019. * Stauffer, John. ''The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2002. (alk. paper) * Trafton, Scott Driskell. ''Egypt Land: Race and Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania''. New Americanists. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004.
External links
*publicly available e-text at the University of Virginia.
My Bondage and My Freedom
publicly available at Project Gutenberg. __NOTOC__ 1855 non-fiction books Works by Frederick Douglass Slave narratives African-American autobiographies Books about African-American history Abolitionism in the United States Books about activists Books about Frederick Douglass {{AfricanAmerican-bio-book-stub