![]() ![]() An instant bestseller, Douglass's autobiography tells the story of his early life as lived in 'bondage' and of his later life as lived in a 'freedom' that was in name only. '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."'Īppearing 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 and freedom-fighter in US history. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health.The European Society of Cardiology Series. ![]() Oxford Commentaries on International Law. ![]()
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