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My Bondage and My Freedom
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African American literature
- In African American literature: Slave narratives
In his second, revised autobiography, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), Douglass depicted himself as a product of a slave community in Maryland’s Eastern Shore and explained how his struggles for independence and liberty did not end when he reached the so-called “free states” of the North. Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents…
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slave narrative literature
- In slave narrative
…life story, Frederick Douglass wrote My Bondage and My Freedom in 1855, partly to recount his continuing struggle for freedom and independence against Northern racism. In 1861 Harriet Jacobs, the first African American female slave to author her own narrative, published Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, which…
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