Frederick Douglass

My Bondage and My Freedom

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Produktbeschreibung

My Bondage My Freedom is Frederick Douglass's second autobiography written after 10 years of reflection following his legal emancipation in 1846 and his break with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison. My Bondadge My Freedom catapulted Douglass into the international spotlight as the foremost spokesman for American blacks, freed and slave. Frederick Douglass was born in slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland. He was not sure of the exact year of his birth, but he knew that it was 1817 or 1818. As a young boy he was sent to Baltimore, to be a house servant, where he learned to read and write, with the assistance of his master's wife. In 1838 he escaped from slavery and went to New York City, where he married Anna Murray, a free colored woman whom he had met in Baltimore. Soon thereafter he changed his name to Frederick Douglass. In 1841 he addressed a convention of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in Nantucket and so greatly impressed the group that they immediately employed him as an agent. He was such an impressive orator that numerous persons doubted if he had ever been a slave, so he Wrote Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass. His autobiographical works include Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bottom of the Hill Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9781612030418
• ISBN-10: 1612030416
• Artikelnr.: 32832876

Autorenporträt

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; c.¿February 1818-February 20, 1895 was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. In his time, he was described by abolitionists as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave.