My Bondage and My Freedom

This Norton Critical Edition includes: Nick Bromell and R. Blakeslee Gilpins introduction to Frederick Douglasss second autobiography, providing the deep contextualisation teachers want and students need. The first edition text (1855), accompanied by the editors detailed explanatory footnotes. Twelve contemporary works that relate to My Bondage and My Freedom, including writings by Frederick Douglass, Benjamin Franklin, William Lloyd Garrison, Henry David Thoreau, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Harriet Jacobs. Nineteen critical assessments of My Bondage and My Freedomnine contemporary and ten recent interpretationsto inspire classroom discussion and research topics across the curriculum A chronology of Frederick Douglasss life and work and a selected bibliography.