Douglass, Frederick:

MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM. PART I.- LIFE AS A SLAVE. PART II.- LIFE AS A FREEMAN...WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY DR. JAMES M'CUNE SMITH.

New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855. Port. frontis. Pages xxxi, [1 blank], [2- engraved plate with original tissue guard], [33]-464 pp, lacking the publ. advt. Scattered foxing. The three plates, as issued, with some foxing and original tissue guards. Bound in modern cloth, gilt-lettered red morocco spine label. Good+.

The first edition, and the second of Douglass's autobiographies. "A rebellious child and an exasperating slave, Douglass often suffered because of his indomitable spirit. It made him the most powerful abolitionist speaker in the country. In 1838, when he was 21, he escaped to New Bedford, learned to read and write, married, and changed his name. He then began his dangerous travels not only to 'narrate wrongs,' but to denounce them...[H]e quickly established himself as the foremost spokesman for the Negro" [LCP Negro History Exhibition].
FIRST EDITION. LCP Negro History Exhibition 187. Work 311. Dumond 48. Blockson 9717. LCP 3233. Item #39266

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