My Bondage And My Freedom (Blacks In The New World)

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This is the first annotated edition of a work Eric J Sundquist has called a classic text of the American Renaissance 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 Douglasss second autobiography to our generation of readers He has few peers in nineteenthcentury black criticism