This story goes deeper than what Douglass was able to address in his Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and that deeper accounting ultimately builds to an inevitable demand: the universal and unconditional emancipation of African Americans. At the time of writing, Douglass had emerged from chattel slavery in Maryland to a qualified freedom in the North and become a renowned speaker on the power of literacy and self-reliance. My Bondage and My Freedom, publicly available at Project Gutenberg.In this, Frederick Douglass’s second memoir, the abolitionist leader reflects further on the inhuman oppression he had personally endured and explores the larger impact of such injustice on society as a whole.My Bondage and My Freedom, publicly available e-text at the University of Virginia.

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'Picturing the Mother, Claiming Egypt: My Bondage and My Freedom as Auto(Bio)Ethnography.' African American Review 35.3 (2001): 391–408. New York: New York University Press, 2011, pp. 60–63. Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation.

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881), Douglass's last autobiography.

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.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845), Douglass's first slave narrative memoir.The book included an introduction by James McCune Smith, who Douglass called the 'foremost black influence' of his life. Following this liberation, Douglass went on to become a prominent abolitionist, speaker, author, and advocate for women's rights.

The book depicts in greater detail his transition from bondage to liberty. 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. My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass and published in 1855. Frederick Douglass, from the 1855 frontispiece

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