My Bondage and My Freedom

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Written during his celebrated career as a speaker and newspaper editor, My Bondage and My Freedom, is Douglass at his most mature, forceful, analytical, and complex, with a deepened commitment to the fight for equal rights and liberties. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the history of race relations in America.

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My Bondage and My Freedom, besides giving a fresh impulse to antislavery literature, [shows] upon its pages the untiring industry of the ripe scholar.William Wells Brown

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John Stauffer is the author of The Black Hearts of Men, which won the Avery O. Craven Award, and was co-winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize and runner-up for the Lincoln Prize. He is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University and lives in Cambridge.