My Bondage and My Freedom
Written by Frederick Douglass
Narrated by Don Hagen
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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings
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Readers find this title to be outstanding and compelling. The book provides a remarkable story that will stay with readers forever. However, there are some issues with the audiobook version, as it skips several pages, causing confusion. Despite this, the narrative is so engaging that readers find it difficult to put the book down. The book also sheds light on the shocking abuse and ownership of slaves by religious individuals, contrasting with the protagonist's unwavering faith. Overall, this title is a must-read for its captivating storytelling and thought-provoking themes.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The work itself is an outstanding read. However this audiobook, whether from Scribd error or original error, skips several pages of the written version on at least two occasions, causing confusion for the listener. I do hope this error is corrected.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a compelling read.I could hardly stop the narrative to eat or sleep. I was shocked to hear about the relgious folks who thought it was okay to horribly abuse and own slaves. Jesus told the parable of the tares and the wheat! These preachers, and parishioners put on a great show of being holy! Fred however did not lose his faith!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Outstanding! So nice to hear his own words. So many memories of thus great man’s story will live with me forever! Remarkable man
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book should be required reading in high school/college. Frederick Douglass is America's hero because he understood and relentlessly pursued and fought for man's basic needs of liberty, justice, humanity, and truth.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a great book, by a great American. Skeptics looking at that statement might think, well sure you think that reading his own account. Except I've found autobiographies unintentionally revealing in fascinating ways. Within the last year I read autobiographies and memoirs by Ghandi, Dian Fossey and Booker T. Washington. The first book lessened my admiration and liking, the second made me absolutely hate the women right because of her own words, and the last left me ambivalent. And in the case of others, I've become disillusioned afterwards reading other accounts of their lives. Neither is the case with Frederick Douglass--after reading this--and even, hell especially, after reading further about him, I have a new hero. I couldn't help but admire him given so much related here--particularly how, after his experience of being treated with dignity and respect in Britain, he decided to come back to America to fight to end slavery. And reading beyond this book, I learned he was a staunch supporter not just of civil rights for African Americans, but equal rights for women as well. Hardly a popular cause or common attitude back then.And simply in terms of content, this book was riveting. The 1855 introduction by James M'Cune Smith did give me momentary pause. It read, like so much 19th century literature I've encountered, as tedious, overly religious and stuffy. Once you reach Douglass' own account however, that's no longer the case. Yes, there is a formal tone that is characteristic of the age, but there wasn't one line of this entire book that wasn't fascinating; he's a master storyteller. After purchasing this book, I learned this is actually the second of three autobiographies written by Douglass. The first, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, published in 1845, is the most famous and arguably of the most influential and historically important. Yet an introduction by Brent Hayes Edwards in the edition I read makes the case for the second biography as the better, more strongly written book. Which makes sense--after all, in the decade since that first biography Douglass had spent years as editor of The North Star, which would have honed his thinking and writing.I also have read that this middle book includes the most expansive account of his time in slavery. And that account is full of insights, not simply into slavery, but how power over others corrupts victim and perpetrator alike. And I've never read a more moving account of the liberating power of literacy. I wish young people could read this early in their schooling, and read of how young Frederick heard his master talk of how reading makes a man unfit for slavery--and understand the importance of reading for setting a mind alight. The appendix contains other items of interest--the gem I think is Douglass' "Letter to his Old Master." Truly, this is a wonderful read.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is one of the greatest autobiographies I've ever read. It blends a story of triumph over adversity, a retelling of a man's education, and an almost-Tocquevillean analysis of a society and how its economic foundation, slavery, seeps into every aspect of that society from religion to family even to the calendar. This should be required reading