In My Bondage and My Freedom, Frederick Douglass gives an account of his life as an enslaved person in Maryland and his eventual escape to the North. Housed in a fine custom quarter-leather folding box. Overall, a very handsome copy, free of repairs or restoration. Minor rubbing to cloth, spine lightly faded, touch of fraying to foot of spine, a bit of offsetting to endpapers, and pages lightly spotted. Original publisher s brown cloth, with decoration in blind to boards, titles in gilt to spine, three engraved plates including frontispiece portrait of Douglass engraved by John Chester Buttre. 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.
As his narrative unfolds, Frederick Douglassâ "abolitionist, journalist, orator, and one of the most powerful voices to emerge from the American civil rights movementâ "transforms himself from slave to fugitive to reformer, leaving behind a legacy of social, intellectual, and political thought." "The most influential African American of the 19th century" (ANB), Douglass was "the most powerful abolitionist speaker in the country" (Negro History).
In his foreword to the 2003 Modern Library paperback edition, John Stauffer writes: "My Bondage and My Freedom," 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.
A very nice example, uncommon in this condition. Octavo, original publisher's brown cloth, with three engraved plates, including the engravedÂfrontispiece from the classic daguerreotype of Douglass. Rare first edition of Douglass' second autobiography. Douglass referred to him as the "foremost black influence" in his life. The introduction was authored by James McCune Smith, an abolitionist, author, and the first African American to receive a medical degree. In it he expands on his transition from bondage to liberty. The second of Douglass' three autobiographies, preceded by the 1845 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Marsh on front pastedown, obscuring two other bookplates. Three engraved plates, including the engraved frontispiece. Webbing visible at both gutters, some interior worming, most pronounced along front gutter, one small instance of worming from frontispiece through vii, and p. Head and tail of spine chipped, upper third of spine partially loose, minor exterior worming, one stripe to front board, two to rear board. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with blind stamping to boards and gilt titling to spine.
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