My Bondage and My Freedom

by Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass expands his life story into a powerful autobiographical indictment of slavery, tracing violence, resistance, education, escape, and the making of a public voice.

At a glance My Bondage and My Freedom is Frederick Douglass’s great expanded autobiography… Douglass recounts enslavement, family separation, coerced labor, acts of resistance, the… Themes The book is indispensable for its treatment of power, dehumanization, memory… Douglass writes both as witness and analyst, showing how slavery worked in daily life…

The book is indispensable for its treatment of power, dehumanization, memory, education, self-fashioning, and abolitionist argument.