| Series |
Norton critical editions
Norton critical edition. ^A538572
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| Contents |
The Text of My Bondage and My Freedom -- Editor's Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Life as a Slave -- Life as a Freeman -- Appendix -- [Frederick [Douglass] · Reception Speech -- Reverend Dr. Campbell · Dr. Campbell's Reply -- [Frederick Douglass] · 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 -- Contexts -- Benjamin Franklin · From The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin -- William Lloyd Garrison · From The Liberator -- Frederick Douglass · The Constitution and Slavery -- · ["The Change in Our Opinion"] -- Henry David Thoreau · From Walden -- Frederick Douglass · What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? -- Harriet Beecher Stowe · From Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Frederick Douglass · Letter to Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Harriet Beecher Stowe · Letter to William Lloyd Garrison -- Frederick Douglass · The Doom of the Black Power -- · The Trials and Triumphs of Self-Made Men -- Harriet Jacobs · From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl -- Criticism -- Contemporary Criticism -- Anonymous · ["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"] -- Ottilie Assing · Preface to the German Translation of My Bondage and My Freedom -- William Wells Brown · ["Eloquent Fugitive"] -- James Monroe Gregory · ["His Style Is Peculiarly His Own"] -- Frederic May Holland · ["Rather a Rare Book"] -- Recent Criticism -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. · From Binary Oppositions in Chapter One of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave Written by Himself -- William L. Andrews · [Neither Individualism nor Authoritarianism] -- Nick K. Bromell · [Slavery, Work, and Song in Douglass's Autobiographies] -- Robert S. Levine · The Black Man and the Brotherhood -- Jeannine DeLombard · From Talking Lawyerlike about Law -- Cody Marrs · Frederick Douglass in 1848 -- Cristin Ellis · From Amoral Abolitionism: Frederick Douglass and the Environmental Case against Slavery -- Neil Roberts · From Comparative Freedom and Marronage in Frederick Douglass -- Juliet Hooker · From "A Black Sister to Massachusetts": Latin America and the Fugitive Democratic Ethos of Frederick Douglass. |
| Abstract |
"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 |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2019047756 |
| ISBN | 9780393923636 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 0393923630 (paperback) |
