My Bondage and Freedom.

£5,000 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

A very good copy of this vital work, published in the increasingly charged years after the passing of the Fugitive Slave Act and the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Of course, by this time Douglass was already a household name. “[T]he Narrative made Frederick Douglass the most famous black person in the world” (Bligh

• Year: 1855

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