Front Matter
THE FREDERICK DOUGLASS PAPERS
VOLUME 2: BONDAGE AND FREEDOM
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Fred' Douglass, c. 1858-59.
William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan
THE
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
PAPERS
John W. Blassingame,
John R. McKivigan,
and Peter P. Hinks, Editors
L. Diane Barnes, Associate Editor
Sean P. Adams, Assistant Editor
Gerald Fulkerson, Textual Editor
Yale University Press
New Haven and London
Frontispiece: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The New York Public Library.
The preparation of this volume of the Frederick Douglass Papers was made possible through grants from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, Division of Research Programs of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Goldsmith Foundation, and Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis.
Published with assistance from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Douglass, Frederick. 1818 - 1895.
The Frederick Douglass papers. Series two. Autobiographical writings / John W. Blassingame, John R. McKivigan, and Peter P. Hinks, editors; L. Diane Barnes. associate editor Sean P. Adams, assistant editor; Gerald Fulkerson, textual editor; Rachael L. Drenovsky, Mark G. Emerson, Victoria C. Gruber, Racquel Henry, C. Jane Holtan . Heather Hutchinson, Andrea Shan Johnson, and Jonathan Nist, editorial assistants.
p. cm .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: v. 2. My Bondage and My freedom ISBN
0-300-09173-7 (v. 2 : alk . paper)
I . Douglass. Frederick. 1818 - 1895. African American abolitionists - Biography. 3. Abolitionists - United States - Biography. 4. Antislavery movements - United States - History 19th century. 5. Fugitive slaves - Maryland - Biography. 6. Slaves - Maryland - Social conditions - 19th century. 7. Plantation life - Maryland - History - 19th century I. Blassingame. John W., 1940 - 2000. II. McKivigan. John R . 1949 - III. Hinks, Peter P. IV. Title. V. Series.
E-149.D738 2003b
973.8'092 - dc21 2003005833
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Louis R. Harlan
Darlene C. Hine
Howard Lamar
Howard Temperley
George B. Tindall
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xi
Introduction to Volume Two xiii
My Bondage and My Freedom 1
Textual Introduction 285
Textual Notes 290
List of Emendations 293
Line-End Hyphenation 295
Historical Collation 298
Historical Annotation 299
Appendixes 399
A. Reader Responses, 1855-56 399
B. Letter from Douglass to William Lloyd Garrison,
13 January 1856 431
C. Preface to the German Translation of
My Bondage and My Freedom 432
D. Harriet L. Anthony, Annotated Copy of
My Bondage and My Freedom 435
Bibliography of Textual Apparatus 440
Index 441