![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He says little, for instance, of his complex family relationships-including his second marriage to a white woman-or his important female friends. ![]() And then he captures the multiple meanings of freedom-as idea and reality, of mind and body-as no one else ever did in America.īut as in so many autobiographies, there is also much Douglass holds back, details that don’t fit his carefully constructed narrative. He describes the young slave who mastered the master’s language, and who saw to the core of the meaning of slavery, both for individuals and for the nation. In them, Douglass tells his extraordinary personal story-of the slave who endured and witnessed untold acts of brutality, then audaciously willed his own freedom. During his lifetime, they launched him to national prominence since then, they have become essential texts of U.S. The three texts included Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (published in 1845) his long-form masterpiece My Bondage and My Freedom, (1855) and finally, The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881, revised in 1892). Frederick Douglass, the most influential black man in 19th-century America, wrote 1,200 pages of autobiography, one of the most impressive performances of memoir in the nation’s history. ![]()
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