This edition is the most valuable teaching tool on slavery and abolition available today. It is exceptional. -Nancy Hewitt, Distinguished Professor Emerita, Rutgers University

One of the most influential literary documents in American and African American history, now available in a critical edition

Ideal for independent reading or for coursework in American and African American history, this revised edition of the memoir written by Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) of his life as a slave in pre-Civil War Maryland incorporates a wide range of supplemental materials to enhance students’ understanding of slavery, abolitionism, and the role of race in American society. Offering readers a new appreciation of Douglass’s world, it includes documents relating to the slave narrative genre and to the later career of an essential figure in the nineteenth-century abolition movement.