Following this liberation, Douglass, a former slave, went on to become a prominent abolitionist, speaker, author, and publisher.'It was said to me, "Better have a little of the plantation manner of speech than not 'tis not best that you seem too learned."'Appearing in 1855, My Bondage and My Freedom is the second autobiography written by Frederick Douglass (1818-95), a man who was born into slavery in Maryland and who went on to become the most famous antislavery author, orator, philosopher, essaysist, historian, intellectual, statesman andįreedom-fighter in US history. It is the second of three autobiographies written by Douglass, and is mainly an expansion of his first (Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass), discussing in greater detail his transition from bondage to liberty. My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass and published in 1855. He was the first African American to run a pharmacy in the United States. He is the first African American to hold a medical degree and graduated at the top in his class at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.
James McCune (ApNovember 17, 1865) was an American physician, apothecary, abolitionist, and author. The 1855 text includes Douglass's original Appendix, composed of excerpts from the author's speeches as well as a letter he wrote to his former master. As his narrative unfolds, Frederick Douglass-abolitionist, journalist, orator, and one of the most powerful voices to emerge from the American civil rights movement-transforms himself from slave to fugitive to reformer, leaving behind a legacy of social, intellectual, and political thought. In his foreword to the 2003 Modern Library paperback edition, John Stauffer writes: "My Bondage and My Freedom," is] a deep meditation on the meaning of slavery, race, and freedom, and on the power of faith and literacy, as well as a portrait of an individual and a nation a few years before the Civil War. Following this liberation, Douglass, a former slave, went on to become a prominent abolitionist, speaker, author, and publisher. My Bondage and My Freedom (Penguin Classics) My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass and published in 1855.
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