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My Bondage and My Freedom
This book by Frederick Douglass, which you can read for free here, here, here, and here, published in 1855, is his second of three autobiographies. In his Introduction historian Philip S. Foner tells us, “In 1855 Douglass wrote an enlarged edition of the Narrative which was published that same year by Miller, Orton and Mulligan […]
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave
This book, written in 1845, is the first of three autobiographies Frederick Douglass wrote in his lifetime. He published the second, My Bondage and My Freedom, in 1855, and the third, The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, in 1882. In his Introduction, Peter Gomes writes, “‘As a child,’ writes W. E. B. DuBois of […]
Student of the American Civil War 
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