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My Bondage and My Freedom

Author
Frederick Douglass
Read by
Raphael Croft
Language
English
Length
11 hours 3 minutes
ISBN
9781802569032
Published
15 September 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • journey
  • slavery
  • freedom
  • oppression
  • dehumanization
  • escape
  • North
  • abolitionist
  • anti-slavery movement
  • speeches

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Description

My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass is a powerful 1855 memoir expanding on his life from slavery to freedom. A sequel to his first autobiography, it offers deeper reflections on the psychological and moral effects of slavery, education as liberation, and the struggle for self-identity. Douglass recounts his journey from Maryland plantation bonds to intellectual awakening in New York and activism in Massachusetts. With eloquence and insight, he critiques the hypocrisy of slaveholding Christianity and asserts the dignity of Black humanity. A foundational text in American literature and abolitionist thought, it reveals Douglass not only as a survivor, but as a philosopher, orator, and enduring voice for justice and human rights.

Author

Frederick Douglass was a prominent African-American abolitionist, social reformer, and orator who sought to bring an end to the system of racialized chattel slavery in nineteenth-century America. His prolific writings, including autobiographies such as Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and My Bondage and My Freedom, served as powerful tools for exposing the brutalities of bondage and advocating for its eradication.

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