Thursday, January 27, 2011

My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass's second autobiography is much longer than Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass despite the fact that only ten years elapsed between the two books. This book, while it treats Douglass's life through 1855, still focuses mainly on his life as a slave. There's much more description of his life in slavery, though, and in some senses it's less personal--there are several chapters devoted to various aspects of how the slave system works, on the plantation level.

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