{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/7a3c5644-595b-4535-89cb-4df503953241/e9e30987-b5d1-4f60-95f4-cbab93b2fae9?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Douglass on Slavery","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6195407ecb03c875f76170fd/6195408d054fb40012de7cf1.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) by the former slave Frederick Douglass was the second of his three autobiographies and the one that contained his most radical ideas.&nbsp;In this episode David explores how Douglass used his life story not only to expose the horror of slavery but to champion a new approach to abolishing it.&nbsp;The name for this approach: politics.</p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"http://www.gutenberg.org/files/202/202-h/202-h.htm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free version of the text</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/286309/my-bondage-and-my-freedom-by-frederick-douglass/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Recommended version to buy </strong></a></p><p><br></p><p>Going deeper.....</p><p><br></p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Frederick-Douglass/David-W-Blight/9781416590323\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">David Blight,&nbsp;<em>Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom</em>&nbsp;(2018)</a></li><li><a href=\"https://global.oup.com/academic/product/scenes-of-subjection-9780195089844?cc=gb&amp;lang=en&amp;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Saidiya Hartman,&nbsp;<em>Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America</em>&nbsp;(1997)</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.waterstones.com/book/transatlantic/colum-mccann/9781408841280\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Colum McCann,&nbsp;<em>TransAtlantic</em>&nbsp;(2013)</a></li><li><a href=\"https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/07/history-of-american-slavery-transcript-henry-louis-gates-on-slave-narratives-and-historical-study.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">(Audio): Jamelle Bouie, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Rebecca Onion, 'Who Should Tell the Story of American Slavery?' (2015)&nbsp;</a></li></ul>","author_name":"Talking Politics"}