1855 My Bondage and My Freedom By Frederick Douglass

Description: My Bondage and My Freedom. Part I: Life as a Slave.Part II: Life as a Freeman. By Frederick Douglass. With an Introduction. By Dr. James M’Cune Smith, Miller, Orton & Mulligan, New York, 1855, 464 pp, plus publisher’s list, brown blind stamped cloth, two engraved plates, one engraved frontis portrait, 8 x 5.5”, 8vo. In fair condition. Moderate wear to extremities with scuffing to corners. Corners have cardboard exposed. Spine ends tattered with crushing, fraying slightly. Slight loss to ends with binding exposed. Moderate soiling to surface of cloth with staining and slight loss at cloth. Ex-libris stamp of Hannibal Hamlin on pastedown. J.D. Devendorf P.M. stamped one on pastedown, fly and second fly. Moderate foxing throughout textblock with dampness staining to margins. Light offsetting from frontisportrait of Douglass on tissue guard. Textblock has minor toning at edges with consistent age staining and scattered foxing throughout. Binding remains intact. Free of known marginalia or markings. Letter of Mr. William V. Elder III addressed from Princeton University dated November 8th, 1955 by Alexander D. Wainwright compliments of him. Please see photos. First Edition, first printing. Introduction by Dr. James McCune Smith. In My Bondage and My Freedom, Frederick Douglass gives an account of his life as an enslaved person in Maryland and his eventual escape to the North. Almost three times the length of his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), My Bondage provides considerably more detail about Douglass time enslaved and updates his story to include some of the major developments in his life since becoming a legally free man. The book also includes an appendix with extracts from some of Douglass notable speeches, and his famous "Letter to His Old Master," which Douglass originally printed as an open letter to his former owner, Thomas Auld. Douglass wrote My Bondage a few years after his rift with white abolitionist friend and mentor, William Lloyd Garrison, over disagreements regarding constitutional interpretation. While Garrison wrote the introduction to Narrative, My Bondage features an introduction by black abolitionist James McCune Smith, whom Douglass described as "the single most important influence" on his life. The book was an instant bestseller, selling around 5,000 copies in two days, and more than 20,000 copies by 1860. Douglass would write one more autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, published in 1881 and revised in 1892. Provenance of Hannibal Hamlin (1809-1891) Abraham Lincoln’s vice president of the United States from 1861-65 during his first term. He was the first Republican vice president and lent loyal support to Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. In the 1864 election, Hamlin was replaced by Andrew Johnson. An important piece of American history, perfect for collector’s of rare Americana!RAREA1855OZBB

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