Thompson, Wright, Buffum, and myself, in the most splendid hall in that most beautiful city, just previous to the meetings of the general assembly. The excitement was intense, having been greatly increased by a series of meetings held by Messrs. Thompson, Buffum, myself, and a few anti-slavery friends, attended, but sat at such a distance, and in such a position, that, perhaps, we were not observed from the platform. The building would hold about twenty-five hundred persons and on this occasion it was densely packed, notice having been given that Doctors Cunningham and Candlish would speak, that day, in defense of the relations of the Free Church of Scotland to slavery in America. ‘The general assembly of the Free Church was in progress at Cannon Mills, Edinburgh. In ‘My Bondage and My Freedom’ Douglass provides a detailed account of his extensive role in the campaign against the Free Church of Scotland and their receipt of donations from white enslavers. MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM BY FREDERICK DOUGLASS. On 23 January 1856, ‘The Scotsman’ newspaper, published in Edinburgh, printed a front-page advertisement jubilantly notifying its readers of the following arrival: A copy of this edition has yet to be located. While the surviving copies of ‘My Bondage and My Freedom’ were published either in the United States or in Germany, research is currently ongoing due to the fact that references survive testifying to the existence of a Scottish edition published during Douglass’s lifetime. For the first time he registered his protest not only against the persecutory racism of white enslavers but against the discriminatory practices of white abolitionists who he condemned for their endorsement of racist prejudices and for failing to believe in the ‘equality of all.’ Frederick Douglass’s (1818-1895) second autobiography, ‘My Bondage and My Freedom’ was first published in Auburn, New York, in 1855.

My bondage and my freedom 1855