![]() ![]() My Bondage and My Freedom introduces few incidents or figures from Douglass's past that do not appear in the Narrative. The second autobiography offers a thoughtful revision of the meaning and goals of Douglass's life. From its opening pages, where the African American abolitionist James McCune Smith, known for his vehement criticism of William Lloyd Garrison, supplants Douglass's former mentor as prefacer of the memoir, My Bondage and My Freedom shows that it is more than a mere updated installment of the Narrative. Frederick Douglass's second autobiography, My Bondage and My Freedom, published by the New York commercial publishers Miller, Orton, and Mulligan in 1855, is larger, more self-consciously literary, and more self-analytical than the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845). ![]()
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