{"product_id":"my-bondage-and-my-freedom-frederick-douglass-9780300190595","title":"My Bondage and My Freedom","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"David Blight has produced a fine edition of Douglass' second autobiography. This is an essential work in African-American and American history, and displays Douglass' developing strength as a writer and political leader.\"--Richard Slotkin, Wesleyan University\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and became a passionate advocate for abolition and social change and the foremost spokesperson for the nation's enslaved African American population in the years preceding the Civil War. \u003ci\u003eMy Bondage and My Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e is Douglass's masterful recounting of his remarkable life and a fiery condemnation of a political and social system that would reduce people to property and keep an entire race in chains. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This classic is revisited with a new introduction and annotations by celebrated Douglass scholar David W. Blight. Blight situates the book within the politics of the 1850s and illuminates how \u003ci\u003eMy Bondage\u003c\/i\u003e represents Douglass as a mature, confident, powerful writer who crafted some of the most unforgettable metaphors of slavery and freedom--indeed of basic human universal aspirations for freedom--anywhere in the English language.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frederick Douglass\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 030019059X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300190595\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/28\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.10d","brand":"Frederick Douglass","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981540950271,"sku":"9780300190595","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5f151871-5329-4cee-9b88-c19a8fc46342.jpg?v=1683256177","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/my-bondage-and-my-freedom-frederick-douglass-9780300190595","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}