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Book Synopsis My Bondage and My Freedom by : Frederick Douglass
Download or read book My Bondage and My Freedom written by Frederick Douglass and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and became a passionate advocate for abolition and social change and the foremost spokesperson for the nation’s enslaved African American population in the years preceding the Civil War. My Bondage and My Freedom is Douglass’s masterful recounting of his remarkable life and a fiery condemnation of a political and social system that would reduce people to property and keep an entire race in chains. This classic is revisited with a new introduction and annotations by celebrated Douglass scholar David W. Blight. Blight situates the book within the politics of the 1850s and illuminates how My Bondage represents Douglass as a mature, confident, powerful writer who crafted some of the most unforgettable metaphors of slavery and freedom—indeed of basic human universal aspirations for freedom—anywhere in the English language.
Book Synopsis My Bondage and My Freedom (an African American Heritage Book) by : Frederick Douglass
Download or read book My Bondage and My Freedom (an African American Heritage Book) written by Frederick Douglass and published by Start Classics. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Frederick Douglass' autobiography My Bondage and My Freedom we can see the power of literacy and belief. Douglass transforms himself from slave to an abolitionist journalist orator and one of the most powerful voices to emerge from the American civil rights movement with little more than force of will. His breadth of his accomplishments gave hope to generations of people who came after him in their fight for civil rights.
Book Synopsis My Bondage and My Freedom by : Frederick Douglass
Download or read book My Bondage and My Freedom written by Frederick Douglass and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2008-08-15 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1855, My Bondage and My Freedom is the second autobiography by Frederick Douglass. Douglass reflects on the various aspects of his life, first as a slave and than as a freeman. He depicts the path his early life took, his memories of being owned, and how he managed to achieve his freedom. This is an inspirational account of a man who struggled for respect and position in life.
Book Synopsis My Bondage and My Freedom by : Frederick Douglass
Download or read book My Bondage and My Freedom written by Frederick Douglass and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My Bondage and My Freedom" is the second of three autobiographies written by Frederick Douglass. It is mainly an expansion of his first autobiography, "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass", discussing in greater detail his transition from bondage to liberty. Frederick Douglass (1818 – 1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Contents: Childhood Removed From My First Home Parentage A General Survey of the Slave Plantation Gradual Initiation to the Mysteries of Slavery Treatment of Slaves on Lloyd's Plantation Life in the Great House A Chapter of Horrors Personal Treatment Life in Baltimore "A Change Came O'er the Spirit of My Dream" Religious Nature Awakened The Vicissitudes of Slave Life Experience in St. Michael's Covey, the Negro Breaker Another Pressure of the Tyrant's Vice The Last Flogging New Relations and Duties The Run-away Plot Apprenticeship Life My Escape From Slavery Liberty Attained Introduced to the Abolitionists Twenty-One Months in Great Britain Various Incidents Reception Speech Dr. Campbell's Reply Letter to His Old Master to My Old Master, Thomas Auld The Nature of Slavery Inhumanity of Slavery What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? The Internal Slave Trade The Slavery Party The Anti-Slavery Movement
Book Synopsis Voices Beyond Bondage by : Erika DeSimone
Download or read book Voices Beyond Bondage written by Erika DeSimone and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slaves in chains, toiling on master’s plantation. Beatings, bloodied whips. This is what many of us envision when we think of 19th century African Americans; source materials penned by those who suffered in bondage validate this picture. Yet slavery was not the only identity of 19th century African Americans. Whether they were freeborn, self-liberated, or born in the years after the Emancipation, African Americans had a rich cultural heritage all their own, a heritage largely subsumed in popular history and collective memory by the atrocity of slavery. The early 19th century birthed the nation’s first black-owned periodicals, the first media spaces to provide primary outlets for the empowerment of African American voices. For many, poetry became this empowerment. Almost every black-owned periodical featured an open call for poetry, and African Americans, both free and enslaved, responded by submitting droves of poems for publication. Yet until now, these poems -- and an entire literary movement -- have been lost to modern readers. The poems in Voices Beyond Bondage address the horrific and the mundane, the humorous and the ordinary and the extraordinary. Authors wrote about slavery, but also about love, morality, politics, perseverance, nature, and God. These poems evidence authors who were passionate, dedicated, vocal, and above all resolute in a bravery which was both weapon and shield against a world of prejudice and inequity. These authors wrote to be heard; more than 150 years later it is at last time for us to listen.
Book Synopsis Self-Taught by : Heather Andrea Williams
Download or read book Self-Taught written by Heather Andrea Williams and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-20 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African Americans' relationship to literacy during slavery, during the Civil War, and in the first decades of freedom. Self-Taught traces the historical antecedents to freedpeople's intense desire to become literate and demonstrates how the visions of enslaved African Americans emerged into plans and action once slavery ended. Enslaved people, Williams contends, placed great value in the practical power of literacy, whether it was to enable them to read the Bible for themselves or to keep informed of the abolition movement and later the progress of the Civil War. Some slaves devised creative and subversive means to acquire literacy, and when slavery ended, they became the first teachers of other freedpeople. Soon overwhelmed by the demands for education, they called on northern missionaries to come to their aid. Williams argues that by teaching, building schools, supporting teachers, resisting violence, and claiming education as a civil right, African Americans transformed the face of education in the South to the great benefit of both black and white southerners.
Book Synopsis Three African-American Classics by : Booker T. Washington
Download or read book Three African-American Classics written by Booker T. Washington and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2007-02-02 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This Dover edition ...is an original compilation of unabridged editions of the following works"--T.p. verso.
Download or read book Sick from Freedom written by Jim Downs and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sick from Freedom provides the first study of the health conditions of emancipated slaves and reveals the epidemics, illnesses, and poverty that former slaves suffered from when slavery ended and freedom began.
Book Synopsis Running from Bondage by : Karen Cook Bell
Download or read book Running from Bondage written by Karen Cook Bell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling examination of the ways enslaved women fought for their freedom during and after the Revolutionary War.
Book Synopsis Medical Bondage by : Deirdre Cooper Owens
Download or read book Medical Bondage written by Deirdre Cooper Owens and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental caesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistula repairs primarily on poor and powerless women. Medical Bondage breaks new ground by exploring how and why physicians denied these women their full humanity yet valued them as “medical superbodies” highly suited for medical experimentation. In Medical Bondage, Cooper Owens examines a wide range of scientific literature and less formal communications in which gynecologists created and disseminated medical fictions about their patients, such as their belief that black enslaved women could withstand pain better than white “ladies.” Even as they were advancing medicine, these doctors were legitimizing, for decades to come, groundless theories related to whiteness and blackness, men and women, and the inferiority of other races or nationalities. Medical Bondage moves between southern plantations and northern urban centers to reveal how nineteenth-century American ideas about race, health, and status influenced doctor-patient relationships in sites of healing like slave cabins, medical colleges, and hospitals. It also retells the story of black enslaved women and of Irish immigrant women from the perspective of these exploited groups and thus restores for us a picture of their lives.
Book Synopsis Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies (LOA #68) by : Frederick Douglass
Download or read book Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies (LOA #68) written by Frederick Douglass and published by Library of America. This book was released on 1994-02-01 with total page 1226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents the only authoritative edition of all three autobiographies by the escaped slave who became a great American leader. Here in this Library of America volume are collected Frederick Douglass's three autobiographical narratives, now recognized as classics of both American history and American literature. Writing with the eloquence and fierce intelligence that made him a brilliantly effective spokesman for the abolition of slavery and equal rights, Douglass shapes an inspiring vision of self-realization in the face of monumental odds. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845), published seven years after his escape, was written in part as a response to skeptics who refused to believe that so articulate an orator could ever have been a slave. A powerfully compressed account of the cruelty and oppression of the Maryland plantation culture into which Douglass was born, it brought him to the forefront of the anti-slavery movement and drew thousands, black and white, to the cause. In My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), Douglass expands the account of his slave years. With astonishing psychological penetration, he probes the painful ambiguities and subtly corrosive effects of black-white relations under slavery, and recounts his determined resistance to segregation in the North. The book also incorporates extracts from Douglass’s speeches, including the searing “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” Life and Times, first published in 1881, records Douglass’s efforts to keep alive the struggle for racial equality udirng Reconstruction. John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, William Lloyd Garrison, and Harriet Beecher Stowe all feature prominently in this chronicle of a crucial epoch in American history. The revised edition of 1893, presented here, includes an account of his controversial diplomatic mission to Haiti. This volume contains a detailed chronology of Douglass’s life, notes providing further background on the events and people mentioned, and an account of the textual history of each of the autobiographies. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Book Synopsis Between Freedom and Bondage by : Christopher Malone
Download or read book Between Freedom and Bondage written by Christopher Malone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between Freedom and Bondage looks at the fluctuations of black suffrage in the ante-bellum North, using the four states of New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Rhode Island as examples. In each of these states, a different outcome was obtained for blacks in their quest to share the vote. By analyzing the various outcomes of state struggles, Malone offers a framework for understanding and explaining how the issue of voting rights for blacks unfolded between the drafting of the Constitution, and the end of the Civil War.
Book Synopsis Dark Enough to See the Stars by : Cindy Noonan
Download or read book Dark Enough to See the Stars written by Cindy Noonan and published by Helping Hands Press. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bloodhounds chase twelve-year-old slave Moses as he follows the North Star to Pennsylvania on the Underground Railroad. His mother had taught him to find the star before she was sold to a plantation hundreds of miles away. Finally in Harrisburg, Moses finds shelter with an Abolitionist family, but when the Fugitive Slave Act becomes law, Northerners caught harboring runaways must pay a fine and go to jail. Moses and a slave girl living with the family flee. They escape by canal boat, steamship, and rail, but slave catchers pursue them at every turn. Freedom in Canada seems far away. Will they ever reach it?
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Book Synopsis Recollections of My Slavery Days by : William Henry Singleton
Download or read book Recollections of My Slavery Days written by William Henry Singleton and published by North Carolina Division of Archives & History. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Henry Singleton was born in 10 August 1843 in New Bern, North Carolina. His father was probably William G. Singleton (1823-1881) and his mother was Lettice Nelson. He enlisted in the Union Army in 1863. He married Maria Wanton (1849-1898) in 1868. Their daughter, Lulu (1884-1856), married Collins L. Fitch (1182-1951) in 1905. They had eight children. Includes Hall, Nelson and related families.
Book Synopsis My Bondage and My Freedom by : Frederick Douglass
Download or read book My Bondage and My Freedom written by Frederick Douglass and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
Book Synopsis The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature by : William L. Andrews
Download or read book The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature written by William L. Andrews and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-02-15 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breathtaking achievement, this Concise Companion is a suitable crown to the astonishing production in African American literature and criticism that has swept over American literary studies in the last two decades. It offers an enormous range of writers-from Sojourner Truth to Frederick Douglass, from Zora Neale Hurston to Ralph Ellison, and from Toni Morrison to August Wilson. It contains entries on major works (including synopses of novels), such as Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Richard Wright's Native Son, and Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. It also incorporates information on literary characters such as Bigger Thomas, Coffin Ed Johnson, Kunta Kinte, Sula Peace, as well as on character types such as Aunt Jemima, Brer Rabbit, John Henry, Stackolee, and the trickster. Icons of black culture are addressed, including vivid details about the lives of Muhammad Ali, John Coltrane, Marcus Garvey, Jackie Robinson, John Brown, and Harriet Tubman. Here, too, are general articles on poetry, fiction, and drama; on autobiography, slave narratives, Sunday School literature, and oratory; as well as on a wide spectrum of related topics. Compact yet thorough, this handy volume gathers works from a vast array of sources--from the black periodical press to women's clubs--making it one of the most substantial guides available on the growing, exciting world of African American literature.
Book Synopsis My Bondage and My Freedom ... by Frederick Douglass. With An Introduction. by Dr. James M'Cune Smith. by : Frederick Douglass
Download or read book My Bondage and My Freedom ... by Frederick Douglass. With An Introduction. by Dr. James M'Cune Smith. written by Frederick Douglass and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1857 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large Format for easy reading. Douglass was among the most prominent African-Americans of his time, and one of the most influential lecturers and authors in American history. His most well-known work is his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Critics frequently attacked the book as inauthentic, not believing that a black man could have produced so eloquent a piece of literature. It was an immediate bestseller. My Bondage and My Freedom, written ten years later is his most accomplished autobiographical account of his life on literary and philosophical terms.
