From my bondage and my freedom

Hardly a popular cause or common attitude back then. The head alluded to is copied from the statue of Ramses the Great, an Egyptian king of the nineteenth dynasty. At the same time, Douglass shouldn't be classified as an informant, but an accomplished author fully in his own right. Douglass had raised himself by his own efforts to the highest position in society. He lived an additional forty 40 years, after , which are not covered in this book. It is whispered that Frederick's father is a white man, and perhaps even the master himself, but "Slavery does away with fathers, as it does away with families.

Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Make a man a slave, and youmrob him of of moral responsibility. Did you know… We have over college courses that prepare you to earn credit by exam that is accepted by over 1, colleges and universities. By the time of his autobiography, he was free to tell all about his enfranchisement, about which I will only say that it involves a sailor suit and a one-way train ticket. If Solomon Northup's 12 Years a Slave is the American Odyssey , then Frederick Douglass's autobiography is something akin to the works produced by the legendary Athenian philosophers. Fields, forests, rivers and seas, are made tributary here. This man was a powerhouse of perceptions, understandings, actions, and telling his Truth.

My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass and published in Email already in use. Content rating PG for mature themes of slavery and slave life and occasionally graphic scenes of beatings. Meant to further inform readers captivated by the stories of cruelty and survival that filled the pages of Douglass's first autobiography, the book raises the cries against slavery from a building action to a crescendo.