[PeterPrinciple]

1855 - My Bondage and My Freedom, by Frederick Douglass

This book is published in 1855. Deserves a read if we are to understand the times.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/202/202-h/202-h.htm

[Homer_J_Simpson]

1855 - My Bondage and My Freedom, by Frederick Douglass This book is published in 1855. Deserves a read if we are to understand the times.

Absolutely! I just added it to my Amazon shopping cart. I recently reflected that of the bios relevant to the era Lincoln and Douglass may be the most important in the period before the war. I plan to find out what some of the generals were doing pre-war but that is of casual interest compared to the experience of Douglass.