My Bondage and My Freedom
Edited and with an Introduction by William L. Andrews
The first annotated edition of "a classic text of the American Renaissance."
Paper – $28
978-0-252-01410-9
Publication Date
Paperback: 01/01/1988
About the Book
As Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has pointed out, My Bondage and My Freedom has been largely ignored by critics, in part because it is longer and less accessible than Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass but also because it has not up to now been "read" by a sensitive critic. "The latter reason is paramount and urgently needed to be addressed, and William Andrews is just the person to introduce Douglass's second autobiography to our generation of readers. He has few peers in nineteenth-century black criticism."About the Author
William L. Andrews is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. HIs books include Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840-1865 and To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865.Reviews
"Andrews's splendid introduction is the best essay on My Bondage and My Freedom and, indeed, on Douglass that I have read. It should gain for My Bondage and My Freedom the stature this book has so long deserved and so long been denied. Not merely the tale of a runaway slave written, remarkably, by a black man, it is a classic of American literature."--William S. McFeely, Pulitzer prize-winning-author of Ulysses S. GrantRelated Titles
