"My Bondage and My Freedom" is the classic slave narrative of Frederick Douglass that tells the tale of his captivity and his freedom from slavery in the early to middle 1800s. "My Bondage and My Freedom" is an important document of the state of race relations and the politics of slavery leading up to the American Civil War and in its pages we find the voice that made Frederick Douglass one of the nation's most prominent figures in the American Anti-Slavery movement as well as an intimate portrait of his life.