My bondage and my freedom : Part I - Life as a slave, Part II - Life as a freeman

My bondage and my freedom : Part I - Life as a slave, Part II - Life as a freeman / by Frederick Douglass ; with an introduction, by James M'Cune Smith ...

Author/creator	Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	New York ; And Auburn : Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856, ©1855 (Auburn [N.Y.] : Miller, Orton & Mulligan, Stereotypers and Printers)
Description	xxxi, 2 unnumbered pages, 34-464 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : facsimile, portrait ; 19 cm
Supplemental Content	Related Electronic Resource: Web site with full text of another edition (New York and Auburn -- 1857 -- 464 p.)
Subject(s)	Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895. Antislavery movements--United States. Slavery--Maryland. Abolitionists--United States --Biography. African Americans--Biography. Enslaved persons--Maryland --Social conditions. Plantation life--Maryland --History --19th century. Fugitive slaves--Maryland. Printing--New York (State) --Auburn --Specimens.

Other author/creator	Smith, James McCune, 1813-1865.
Other author/creator	Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893, engraver.
Other author/creator	Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874, dedicatee.
Other author/creator	Warren, Acastus, autographer.
Spine title	My bondage and freedom
Contents	Part I. Life as a slave -- Part II. Life as a freeman -- Appendix.
Abstract	Autobiography of the nineteenth-century abolitionist who advocated the full freedom of the blacks.
Local note	Joyner Rare copy includes autograph of Acastus Warren of Rusell[sic], [New York?] on front fly leaf.
General note	Running title on versos, p. 34-334: Life as a slave.
General note	Running title on versos, p. 336-406: Life as a freeman.
General note	Running title on versos, p. 408-464: Appendix.
General note	Running title on rectos varies with contents.
General note	Frontispiece signed: Engraved by J.C. Buttre from a Daguerreotype.
General note	Frontispiece portrait includes facsimile autograph.
General note	At least one issue includes printing information at head of title: Seventeenth thousand.
General note	Includes printer's imprint on t.p. verso.
General note	Dedicated to Gerrit Smith.
Acquisitions source	Joyner Rare copy purchased from Valley Books, 2/12/20
Genre/form	Biographies.
Genre/form	History.
Genre/form	Specimens.
Genre/form	Slave narratives United States 19th century.
Genre/form	Autobiographies United States 19th century.

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	Rare Collection	E449 .D738 1856	✔ Available	Request Material