{"product_id":"my-bondage-and-my-freedom-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrederick Douglass\u003c\/b\u003e (1818-1895) was an American social reformer, orator, author, and statesman. \u003cb\u003eDavid W. Blight\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of American history at Yale University and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460086468882,"sku":"9780300190595","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5a781dd6-2ce6-4aa1-b8b2-31e201be34a4.jpg?v=1748517378","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/my-bondage-and-my-freedom-9780300190595","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}