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In his final autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass Written By Himself, Frederick Douglass shares the stories of his 'several lives in one.' He does powerful justice to his lives lived in U.S. slavery, in the fight for abolition, and in the 'conflict and battle' of the Civil War.
List of contents
- 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
About the author
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.
Summary
In his final autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass Written By Himself, Frederick Douglass shares the stories of his 'several lives in one.' He does powerful justice to his lives lived in U.S. slavery, in the fight for abolition, and in the 'conflict and battle' of the Civil War.
