![]() ![]() Appearing a decade after his initial, brief autobiography, My Bondage and My Freedom is the work "critics have increasingly called Douglass' 'true' life story" (Lee, Slavery, Philosophy and American Literature, 99). And he recognized that African Americans must play a conspicuous role in that struggle" (ANB). Throughout his life, "Douglass understood that the struggle for emancipation and equality demanded forceful, persistent, and unyielding agitation. ![]() "The most influential African American of the 19th century" (ANB), Douglass was "the most powerful abolitionist speaker in the country" ( Negro History). ![]() Housed in a custom clamshell box.įirst edition of Douglass' second autobiography-his "'true' life story"-with three engraved plates, including the stipple-engraved frontispiece from the classic daguerreotype of Douglass, and printed extracts from his famous speeches, an especially handsome copy in original cloth. Small octavo (5-1/2 by 7-3/4 inches), original brown cloth. New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855. "THE MOST INFLUENTIAL AFRICAN AMERICAN OF THE 19TH CENTURY": FIRST EDITION OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS' MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM, 1855ĭOUGLASS, Frederick. ![]()
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