My Bondage and My Freedom

This Norton Critical Edition includes: * Nick Bromell and R. Blakeslee Gilpin's introduction to Frederick Douglass's second autobiography, providing the deep contextualization teachers want and students need. * The first edition text (1855), accompanied by the editors' detailed explanatory footnotes. * Twelve contemporary works that relate to My Bondage and My Freedom, including writings by Frederick Douglass, Benjamin Franklin, William Lloyd Garrison, Henry David Thoreau, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Harriet Jacobs. * Nineteen critical assessments of My Bondage and My Freedom-nine contemporary and ten recent interpretations-to inspire classroom discussion and research topics across the curriculum. * A chronology of Frederick Douglass's life and work and a selected bibliography.