{"id":36325,"date":"2014-04-20T16:52:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T16:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36325"},"modified":"2017-02-06T22:57:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T22:57:15","slug":"my-bondage-and-my-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36325","title":{"rendered":"My Bondage and My Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yalebooks.com\/book\/9780300190595\/my-bondage-and-my-freedom\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>My Bondage and My Freedom<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yalepress.yale.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Yale University Press<\/a><br \/>\n2014 (originally published in 1855 by Miller, Orton &amp; Mulligan)<br \/>\n432 pages<br \/>\n5 1\/2 x 8 1\/4<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9780300190595<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frederick_Douglass\" target=\"_blank\">Frederick Douglass<\/a> (1818\u20131895)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Introduction and Notes by <a href=\"http:\/\/history.yale.edu\/people\/david-blight\" target=\"_blank\">David W. Blight<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yalebooks.com\/book\/9780300190595\/my-bondage-and-my-freedom\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yalebooks.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/book_jacket\/public\/imagecache\/external\/0f73447b3271f65bca81bf9f5aba0557.jpg?itok=AFA7afnw\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s enslaved African American population in the years preceding the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\">Civil War<\/a>. <em>My Bondage and My Freedom<\/em> is Douglass\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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 <em>My Bondage<\/em> represents Douglass as a mature, confident, powerful writer who crafted some of the most unforgettable metaphors of slavery and freedom\u2014indeed of basic human universal aspirations for freedom\u2014anywhere in the English language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Bondage and My Freedom Yale University Press 2014 (originally published in 1855 by Miller, Orton &amp; Mulligan) 432 pages 5 1\/2 x 8 1\/4 Paperback ISBN: 9780300190595 Frederick Douglass (1818\u20131895) Introduction and Notes by David W. Blight Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and became a passionate advocate for abolition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,8,17,6940,20],"tags":[17251,17250,84,1424],"class_list":["post-36325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-david-blight","tag-david-w-blight","tag-frederick-douglass","tag-yale-university-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46248,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36325\/revisions\/46248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}