Description: "Nick Bromell and R. Blakeslee Gilpin have edited Frederick Douglass's iconic autobiography with great verve and insight. Coupled with some known as well as unknown documents, this edition of My Bondage and My Freedom will be of tremendous use for experts and nonexperts alike." --MANISHA SINHA, University of Connecticut
Brief description: NICK BROMELL is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of By the Sweat of the Brow: Labor and Literature in Antebellum America and The Time Is Always Now: Black Thought and the Transformation of U.S. Democracy. His articles and essays on Frederick Douglass and African American political thought have appeared in American Literary History, The American Scholar, and Political Theory.