un noir, un blanc, unis dans le même combat pour l'abolition de l'esclavage dans les etats-unis d'avant la guerre de sécession.
 s'emparant de la fête nationale américaine, deux grands intellectuels, frederick douglass et henry david thoreau, prononcent chacun un violent réquisitoire contre la persistance de l'esclavage dans leur pays.  confrontant la nation à son histoire et à ses principes fondateurs, ils en appellent à la conscience de leurs concitoyens.  mais, par-delà leur commun engagement abolitionniste, ils témoignent de convictions politiques et de préoccupations personnelles différentes.
 la relation entre histoire et mémoire, les rapports entre individu et communauté, la conception de la nation et le sens de la liberté, tels sont les enjeux qui donnent à leur pensée une place essentielle dans l'histoire politique et intellectuelle des etats-unis.

De l'esclavage en Amérique

An updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materials The preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass's Narrative powerfully details the life of the abolitionist from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in 1838, how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and driver, how he learned to read and write, and how he grew into a man who could only live free or die. In addition to Douglass's classic autobiography, this new edition also includes his most famous speech 'What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?' and his only known work of fiction, The Heroic Slave, which was written, in part, as a response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass

Born a slave in 1818 on a plantation in Maryland, Douglass taught himself to read and write. In 1845, seven years after escaping to the North, he published Narrative, the first of three autobiographies. This book calmly but dramatically recounts the horrors and the accomplishments of his early years—the daily, casual brutality of the white masters; his painful efforts to educate himself; his decision to find freedom or die; and his harrowing but successful escape.An astonishing orator and a skillful writer, Douglass became a newspaper editor, a political activist, and an eloquent spokesperson for the civil rights of African Americans. He lived through the Civil War, the end of slavery, and the beginning of segregation. He was celebrated internationally as the leading black intellectual of his day, and his story still resonates in ours.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Collected Works: A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave + The Heroic Slave + My Bondage and My Freedom + Life and Times of Frederick Douglass + My Escape from Slavery + Self-Made Men + Speeches & Writings" contains 7 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
1. A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by former slave, Frederick Douglass. The text, first published in 1845, describes the events of his life and encompasses eleven chapters that recount Douglass' life as a slave and his ambition to become a free man. It is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th century in the United States.
2. The Heroic Slave, a heartwarming Narrative of the Adventures of Madison Washington, in Pursuit of Liberty is a short piece of fiction written by famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass. The novella, published in 1852, was Douglass' first and only published work of fiction.
3. My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Douglass and published in 1855. The book describes in greater detail his transition from bondage to liberty. 
4. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass is Frederick Douglass' third autobiography, published in 1881 and revised in 1892. Because of the emancipation of American slaves during and following the American Civil War, Douglas gave more details about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery in this volume than he could in his two previous autobiographies. 
5. My Escape from Slavery was published in 1881 in The Century Illustrated Magazine. His fully revised autobiography was published as Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, also in 1881. In this book Douglass describes in vivid detail his escape by train from Maryland, where he was legally a slave, north to New York City.
6. Self-Made Men is a famous lecture (1895). In this speech he gives his own definition of the self-made man and explains what he thinks are the means to become such a man.
7. The Speeches & Writings section contains 6 seminal texts:  What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? (1852) - Reconstruction (1866) - An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage (1867) - Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln (1876) - The Color Line (1881) and The Future of the Colored Race (1886)
Frederick Douglass (1818 -  1895) was an African-American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing.

The Collected Works: A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave + The Heroic Slave + My Bondage and My Freedom + Life and Times of Frederick Douglass + My Escape from Slavery + Self-Made Men + Speeches & Writings

Frederick Douglass was born in slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland. He was not sure of the exact year of his birth, but he knew that it was 1817 or 1818. As a young boy he was sent to Baltimore, to be a house servant, where he learned to read and write, with the assistance of his master's wife. In 1838 he escaped from slavery and went to New York City, where he married Anna Murray, a free colored woman whom he had met in Baltimore. Soon thereafter he changed his name to Frederick Douglass. In 1841 he addressed a convention of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in Nantucket and so greatly impressed the group that they immediately employed him as an agent. He was such an impressive orator that numerous persons doubted if he had ever been a slave, so he wrote Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass. During the Civil War he assisted in the recruiting of colored men for the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Regiments and consistently argued for the emancipation of slaves. After the war he was active in securing and protecting the rights of the freemen. In his later years, at different times, he was secretary of the Santo Domingo Commission, marshall and recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia, and United States Minister to Haiti.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Mémoires d'un esclave

Il y a deux siècles, nombreux étaient ceux qui considéraient l'esclavage, cette " institution particulière ", comme une chose acceptable, morale, voire tout à fait normale. Face à tant de cruauté, d'injustice et d'impunité, des voix se sont élevées, aux Etats-Unis et dans le monde entier. Aujourd'hui, plus personne ne pense que l'esclavage est une bonne chose. Publier ces Mémoires d'un esclave, c'est non seulement travailler contre l'oubli et la banalisation des luttes, mais c'est aussi une manière de rappeler que, au milieu d'un océan de phénomènes tenus pour acceptables, moraux, voire tout à fait normaux (capitalisme sauvage, exploitation des humains et de l'environnement, course aveugle au profit), il n'est pas vain de résister.

«  Mes lecteurs ont vu comment d'un homme on faisait un esclave  ; ils vont voir comment un esclave devint un homme.  »  Né dans une plantation du Maryland en 1818, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey est esclave de père blanc. En 1825, il est envoyé comme manoeuvre à Baltimore, puis loué à un negro breaker (casseur d'esclaves) en 1834. À 20 ans, il s'évade, déguisé en marin, et se réfugie dans le Massachusetts où il prend le nom de Douglass et participe à des meetings abolitionnistes. En 1845, il publie ses Mémoires dans lesquelles il dissèque le système esclavagiste. Celui qui avait appris seul à lire et à écrire - persuadé que l'éducation était la clé de la liberté - relate sa vie d'esclave et son émancipation, physique et intellectuelle. Douglass sait que la libération passe par la sortie de l'ignorance. Il se convertit rapidement en une des grandes figures abolitionnistes des États-Unis et en père du Mouvement de libération des Noirs. Comme Twelve Years a Slave de Solomon Northup quelques années plus tard, ses Mémoires deviennent un des grands textes classiques sur la condition des esclaves racontée par eux-mêmes et une référence de la littérature antiesclavagiste. En 1852, il déclarera  : «  Nulle part au monde il n'y a une nation qui soit coupable de crimes aussi sanglants et aussi ignobles que ceux que commettent en ce jour et à cette heure les citoyens des États-Unis.  »    Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)Orateur éloquent, abolitionniste, Frederick Douglass écrit son autobiographie en 1845. La notoriété de son récit met en péril sa liberté illégale dans les États non esclavagistes du Nord. Il se réfugie en Europe où il obtient son affranchissement officiel. Conférencier populaire à partir de 1866, il occupe diverses fonctions administratives dans le gouvernement entre 1871 et 1895. Frederick Douglass croyait fermement à l'égalité de tous, incluant les descendants d'africains, les femmes, les immigrants, et évidemment tous les autres américains d'ascendance européenne.    Préface de Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, Professeure d'études américaines - Université Paris Diderot. Laboratoire de recherches sur les cultures anglophones)

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