The life of Frederick Douglass, recorded in the pages which follow, is not merely an example of self-elevation under the most adverse circumstances it is, moreover, a noble vindication of the highest aims of the American anti-slavery movement. To such a man, dear reader, it is my privilege to introduce you.
When a man raises himself from the lowest condition in society to the highest, mankind pay him the tribute of their admiration when he accomplishes this elevation by native energy, guided by prudence and wisdom, their admiration is increased but when his course, onward and upward, excellent in itself, furthermore proves a possible, what had hitherto been regarded as an impossible, reform, then he becomes a burning and a shining light, on which the aged may look with gladness, the young with hope, and the down-trodden, as a representative of what they may themselves become. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today! This volume also reproduces Frederick Douglass's only work of fiction, The Heroic Slave, published in 1853.The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser. This new edition examines Douglass's biography, literary strategies and political activism alongside his depiction of Black women's lives and his narrative histories of Black heroism. Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom is a literary, intellectual and philosophical tour-de-force in which he betrays his determination not only to speak but to write 'just the word that seemed to me the word to be written by me.' Recognizing that his body and soul were bought and sold by white slaveholders in the US South, he soon realized his story was being traded by white northern antislavery campaigners. An instant bestseller, Douglass's autobiography tells the story of his early life as lived in 'bondage' and of his later life as lived in a 'freedom' that was in name only. 'It was said to me, "Better have a little of the plantation manner of speech than not 'tis not best that you seem too learned."'Īppearing in 1855, My Bondage and My Freedom is the second autobiography written by Frederick Douglass (1818-95), a man who was born into slavery in Maryland and who went on to become the most famous antislavery author, orator, philosopher, essaysist, historian, intellectual, statesman and freedom-fighter in US history.
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