Description
Ex-slave Frederick Douglass's second autobiography — written after ten years of reflection following his legal 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 enslaved. Written during his celebrated career as a speaker and newspaper editor, My Bondage and My Freedom reveals the author of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) as a figure grown more mature, forceful, analytical, and complex, with a deepened commitment to the fight for equal rights and liberties.