Do you think Frederick Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom is authentic? If so, how do you explain the inconsistancies between his three autobiographies?
Date Submitted: 10/28/2002 23:27:56
Category: / History / North American History
Length: 5 pages (1288 words)
Category: / History / North American History
Length: 5 pages (1288 words)
Fact or Fiction: You Decide!
I believe the book, My Bondage and My Freedom, by Frederick Douglass is an authentic retelling of his life. It is the story of a boy who was born a slave. He was one of very few who knew how to read and write. He stood up against those keeping him down, such as Mr. Covey. "I now forgot my roots, and remembered my pledge to stand up in my …
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…true example of an American living his dream.
WORKS CITED:
Carnegie, Andrew. "A Talk to Young Men." Making Connections Ed. Kathleen Gaissler and Kenneth Waltzer. McGraw-Hill: Lansing; 2000. 229-230
Douglass, Frederick. My Bondage and My Freedom. Dover: New York 1969
Gates, Henry Louis Jr. A Dangerous Literacy: The Legacy of Frederick Douglass. The New York Times Book Review. 28 May 1995. Pg.3 and 16
Jefferson, Thomas. "Declaration of Independence." Making Connections Ed. Kathleen Gaissler and Kenneth Waltzer. McGraw-Hill: Lansing; 2000. 45-47
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