This Norton Critical Edition includes:

• Nick Bromell and R. Blakeslee Gilpin's introduction to Frederick Douglass's second autobiography, providing the deep contextualization teachers want and students need.
• The first edition text (1855), accompanied by the editors' detailed explanatory footnotes.
• Twelve contemporary works that relate to My Bondage and My Freedom, including writings by Frederick Douglass, Benjamin Franklin, William Lloyd Garrison, Henry David Thoreau, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Harriet Jacobs.
• Nineteen critical assessments of My Bondage and My Freedom--nine contemporary and ten recent interpretations--to inspire classroom discussion and research topics across the curriculum.
• A chronology of Frederick Douglass's life and work and a selected bibliography.

About the Series
Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format--annotated text, contexts, and criticism--helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.