In short, any work in the public domain, and particularly one by such a universally renowned figure as Frederick Douglass, is far from rare. Project Gutenberg offers up the book not only in plain text, but Kindle-ready for a plane ride from Maryland to New England – covering in a few hours the trek Douglass took years to formulate. Google Books’ search function turns up another (this time in the book’s original typeset context) straight from the shelves of Stanford’s library a similar search of the Internet Archive yields nearly a dozen scanned copies from collections around the world. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Documenting the American South project offers up the former slave’s text in glowing HTML. Increasingly, those same tomes are as far away as a few words in a search box.Ĭlicking the mouse and typing in the words “My Bondage and My Freedom” automatically unearths countless ways to read the autobiography that Frederick Douglass penned in 1855. Yesterday, the tomes and volumes written by the actors of the past needed to be unearthed from dusty libraries like diamonds hidden in the rough. The public domain is a rich and growing trove for any budding historian. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass and edited by David W.
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