My Bondage and My Freedom

"My Bondage and My Freedom" is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass first published in 1855. It is the second of three autobiographies written by Douglass and is mainly an expansion of his first, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. The book depicts in greater detail his transition from bondage to liberty. Reprinted by New York History Review, 2022.