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DOUGLASS, Frederick (1818-1895). My Bondage and My Freedom. With an introduction by Dr. James M’Cune Smith. New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855.
8vo. Engraved frontispiece portrait, 2 engraved plates (spotting, inked mark on one plate). Original blindstamped brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine (extremities worn, spine sunned, hinges tender).
FIRST EDITION of this important and scarce second autobiography and slave narrative, preceded only by the 1845 Narrative, on one of the most significant Americans of the 19th century. Several of his essays included in the Appendix including “Letter to his Old Master” and “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”. Sabin 20714; Blockson 9717.