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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: Written by Himself
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: Written by Himself
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  • In-depth examination of Life and Times of Frederick Douglass as an innovative and experimental literary text and pioneering work of political radicalism
  • Detailed analysis of Douglass' fight not only against the legal institution of slavery but against the survival of the 'spirit of slavery'
  • Thorough exploration of his lifelong fight against white supremacy and white racism

       
'It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery; secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery; thirdly, the life of comparative freedom; fourthly, the life of conflict and battle; and, fifthly, the life of victory, if not complete, at least assured.'
    
First published in 1892, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass Written By Himself is the final autobiography written by Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), a man who was born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland. Securing his self-liberation at twenty years of age in 1838, he went on to become the most renowned antislavery activist, social justice campaigner, author, orator, philosopher, essayist, historian, intellectual, statesman, and liberator in U.S. history. A powerful literary work, Douglass' final autobiography shares the stories of his 'several lives in one.'
    
Beginning with his war against 'the hell-black system of human bondage,' Douglass bears witness to his personal experiences of mind-body-and soul-destroying tragedies. Living a new life as a 'fugitive from slavery,' he tells his audiences of his decades-long labours as a world-leading freedom-fighter. Ever vigilant in his protest against the discriminatory persecutions endured by millions of 'my people,' he testifies to the terrible reality that his 'life of comparative freedom' necessitated a lifelong fight against the inhumane injustices of 'American prejudice against colour.' Living a death-defying 'life of conflict and battle' during the Civil War, Douglass celebrates the 'life of victory' promised by post-war civil rights legislation only to condemn the failures of the U.S. nation either to exterminate slavery or secure equal rights for all. All too painfully aware that the 'conflict between the spirit of liberty and the spirit of slavery' was far from over and would become the unending struggle for 'aftercoming generations' in the ongoing war against white supremacy, Douglass remained a fearless fighter against the 'infernal and barbarous spirit of slavery' 'wherever I find it' to the day that he died.
    
This new edition examines Douglass' memorialization of his own and his mother Harriet Bailey's first-hand experiences of enslavement and of their 'mental' liberation through a 'love of letters'; his representation of Civil War Black combat heroism; his conviction that 'education means emancipation'; and finally, his 'unending battle' with white publishers for the freedom to 'tell my story.' This volume reproduces Frederick Douglass' emotionally powerful and politically hard-hitting anti-lynching speech, Lessons of the Hour, published in 1894.

目次: 

Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Frederick Douglass
  
LIFE AND TIMES OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS
   

Appendix: Lessons of the Hour
Explanatory Notes

著者について: 

Frederick Douglass
Edited by Celeste-Marie Bernier, University of Edinburgh, and Andrew Taylor, University of Edinburgh
    
Celeste-Marie Bernier is Professor of United States and Atlantic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of African American Visual Arts (2008), Characters of Blood (2012), Suffering and Sunset (2015), Stick to the Skin (2019), and Battleground (2022). Her co-authored and co-edited works include Inside the Invisible (2019), Pictures and Power (2018), If I Survive (2018), Visualising Slavery (2016), Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing (2017), and Picturing Frederick Douglass (2015). She is editor of Frederick Douglass' Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (2018) and My Bondage and My Freedom (2019). She is the author of the forthcoming The Anna Murray and Frederick Douglass Family Papers and Douglass Family Lives: The Biography.
    
Andrew Taylor is Professor of American Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely in the field of nineteenth-century US literature and transatlantic literary studies.

商品情報

ISBN : 9780198835325

著者: 
Douglass, Frederick; Bernier, Celeste-Marie; Taylor, Andrew
ページ
640 ページ
フォーマット
Paperback
サイズ
129 x 196 mm
刊行日
2022年07月
シリーズ
Oxford World's Classics
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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: Written by Himself

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: Written by Himself

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: Written by Himself