My Bondage and My Freedom

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My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass and published in 1855.

Douglass was a former slave who eventually became a prominent abolitionist and a successful author.

[edit] References

  • Chaney, Michael A. "Picturing the Mother, Claiming Egypt: My Bondage and My Freedom as Auto(Bio)Ethnography." African American Review 35.3 (2001): 391-408.
  • Richardson, Mark. "Frederick Douglass' My Bondage and My Freedom." American Writers Classics, I. Ed. Jay Parini. New York, NY: Thomson Gale, 2003. 163-82. ISBN 0-684-31248-4
  • Stauffer, John. The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-674-00645-3 (alk. paper)
  • Trafton, Scott Driskell. Egypt Land: Race and Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania. New Americanists. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8223-3362-7
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