ISBN10: 0940450798, ISBN13: 9780940450790, [publisher: Library of America] Hardcover Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass (c. 1818-1895) educated himself, escaped, and made himself one of the greatest leaders in American history. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., editor,&#160is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Di.
[Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 1994]
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ISBN10: 0940450798, ISBN13: 9780940450790, [publisher: The Library of America, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents the only authoritative edition of all three autobiographies by the escaped slave who becamea great American leader.Here in this Library of America volume are collected Frederick Douglass's three autobiographical narratives, now recognized as classics of both American history and American literature. Writing with the eloquence and fierce intelligence that made him a brilliantly effective spokesman for the abolition of slavery and equal rights, Douglass shapes an inspiring vision of self-realization in the face of monumental odds.Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave(1845), published seven years after his escape, was written in part as a response to skeptics who refused to believe that so articulate an orator could ever have been a slave. A powerfully compressed account of the cruelty and oppression of the Maryland plantation culture into which Douglass was born, it brought him to the forefront of the anti-slavery movement and drew thousands, black and white, to the cause.InMy Bondage and My Freedom(1855), Douglass expands the account of his slave years. With astonishing psychological penetration, he probes the painful ambiguities and subtly corrosive effects of black-white relations under slavery, and recounts his determined resistance to segregation in the North. The book also incorporates ...
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ISBN10: 0940450798, ISBN13: 9780940450790, [publisher: The Library of America, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents the only authoritative edition of all three autobiographies by the escaped slave who becamea great American leader.Here in this Library of America volume are collected Frederick Douglass's three autobiographical narratives, now recognized as classics of both American history and American literature. Writing with the eloquence and fierce intelligence that made him a brilliantly effective spokesman for the abolition of slavery and equal rights, Douglass shapes an inspiring vision of self-realization in the face of monumental odds.Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave(1845), published seven years after his escape, was written in part as a response to skeptics who refused to believe that so articulate an orator could ever have been a slave. A powerfully compressed account of the cruelty and oppression of the Maryland plantation culture into which Douglass was born, it brought him to the forefront of the anti-slavery movement and drew thousands, black and white, to the cause.InMy Bondage and My Freedom(1855), Douglass expands the account of his slave years. With astonishing psychological penetration, he probes the painful ambiguities and subtly corrosive effects of black-white relations under slavery, and recounts his determined resistance to segregation in the North. The book also incorporates ...
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