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?
Title: 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?
Category: /History/North American History
Details: Words: 1288 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
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?
Category: /History/North American History
Details: Words: 1288 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
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 …showed first 75 words of 1288 total…
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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
