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Frederick Douglass

My Bondage and My Freedom

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The second volume in Douglass's three great autobiographical narratives, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) was written after he had established himself as a newspaper editor. In this book, Douglass expands upon his previous account of his years as a slave. With great psychological penetration, he probes the long-term and corrosive effects of slavery and comments upon his active resistance to the segregation he encounters in the North. Frederick Douglass was a renowned orator and the text of one of his most powerful speeches What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? can by found in My Bondage and My Freedom.

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Weitere Autoren: Wright, John S. (Einf.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-7434-6059-0
  • EAN: 9780743460590
  • Produktnummer: 9756867
  • Verlag: Simon & Schuster N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
  • Seitenangabe: 416 S.
  • Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
  • Masse: H21.0 cm x B13.5 cm x D2.5 cm 476 g
  • Gewicht: 476

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Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; c.¿February 1817[1] - February 20, 1895[5]) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory[6] and incisive antislavery writings. In his time, he was described by abolitionists as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens.[7][8] Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave.[9]Douglass wrote several autobiographies. He described his experiences as a slave in his 1845 autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which became a bestseller, and was influential in promoting the cause of abolition, as was his second book, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855). After the Civil War, Douglass remained an active campaigner against slavery and wrote his last autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. First published in 1881 and revised in 1892, three years before his death, it covered events during and after the Civil War. Douglass also actively supported women's suffrage, and held several public offices. Without his approval, Douglass became the first African American nominated for Vice President of the United States as the running mate and Vice Presidential nominee of Victoria Woodhull, on the Equal Rights Party ticket.[10]Douglass was a firm believer in the equality of all peoples, whether white, black, female, Native American, or Chinese immigrants.[11] He was also a believer in dialogue and in making alliances across racial and ideological divides, and in the liberal values of the U.S. Constitution.[12] When radical abolitionists, under the motto No Union with Slaveholders, criticized Douglass' willingness to engage in dialogue with slave owners, he replied: I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.

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