The introduction was authored by James McCune Smith, an abolitionist, author, and the first African American to receive a medical degree. In it he expands on his transition from bondage to liberty. The second of Douglass' three autobiographies, preceded by the 1845 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Marsh on front pastedown, obscuring two other bookplates. Three engraved plates, including the engraved frontispiece. Webbing visible at both gutters, some interior worming, most pronounced along front gutter, one small instance of worming from frontispiece through vii, and p. Head and tail of spine chipped, upper third of spine partially loose, minor exterior worming, one stripe to front board, two to rear board. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with blind stamping to boards and gilt titling to spine.
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