My Bondage and My Freedom
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Ex-slave Frederick Douglass’s second autobiography-written after ten years of reflection following his officially authorized emancipation in 1846 and his break with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison-catapulted Douglass into the international spotlight as the foremost spokesman for American blacks, both freed and slave. Written during his celebrated career as a speaker and newspaper editor, My Bondage and My Freedom reveals the leader 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.
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by John David Smith
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Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
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Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I have to be honest, I never knew that Frederick Douglass published another volume of his autobiography. I foolishly believed that A Narrative in the Life of Frederick Douglass was his only book regarding is life as a slave and his life as a free man. I was so incorrect. Sometimes I marvel how many additional people still judge as I once did…
My Bondage and My Freedom is an exceptional example of auto-biographical writing. Douglass’ mastery of the English language is superb! In reading his tale and the way he’s able to clarify his past as a young boy, raised by his grandmother and then sent to start effective, with small knowledge before that he was in fact a slave was so eye-opening. I had no thought that some children, raised during this time were really allowed to be child for a few precious years before they were introduced to the vile world of slavery.
This book give such a detailed account of a man’s struggle to unleash the genius kept constrained by the world into which he was born and raised, is just incredible. I’m still astounded by him even though it’s been some time since I finished the book. While a majority of the book describes his life as a young boy and slave (told in the My Bondage section), the rest of the book (My Freedom) tells of his life after he escaped from slavery, his experiences agreed lectures against slavery, his time abroad in additional countries where he was treated as a human being and not as a piece of property and then of his struggles to make and manage his own newspaper once he returns to the United States.
The appendix is also a treasure, as it reprints many of his speeches and lectures on the injustice against humanity that was the slavery system. A Narrative in the Life of Frederick Douglass is one of my all time favorite books and I find that My Bondage and My Freedom is certainly a worthy companion, especially if you are looking for a deeper understanding of the life of Frederick Douglass.
One thing that was missing and that I want to come across one day, is his writing on his actual escape from slavery, as it is never fully clarified in this book. As a reader you only know that he plotted it and obviously executed his daring escape with help from others. That would really be a treat…
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
THIS BOOK IS POWERFUL, ITS SHOCKING, AND IT IS ASPIRING. THERE IS NOTHING ON CHANNEL 11 THAT BRINGS THE HONEST, INSIGHTFUL, VERY REAL ACCOUNT THAT MR.DOUGLASS DOES IN HIS BOOK. FROM SLAVE TO FREE-MAN, THIS IS TRUELY AN AMERICAN SUCCESS. SKIP THE INTRO, AND JUMP INTO IT.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Douglass’s second, and lengthier, narrative fills in many of the gaps left in his first autobiography: we learn about his mother, his siblings, and more details about his psychological transformation from brute to man. It’s reasonably insightful, as Douglass is careful to tell each of his personal experiences to the innate evil of the peculiar instituition, for both the slave and the slave holder.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5