Best 1855
This pamphlet contains an abridged excerpt from Frederick Douglass's 1855 autobiography, My Bondage and My Freedom, the second of his three published autobiographical works. The full text expands on his earlier 1845 Narrative by providing additional detail about his life in slavery, his self-educati...
Why this score?
Excerpts retain Douglass's exceptional insight and prose, but abridgment diminishes the autobiography's narrative and intellectual development.
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I vespri siciliani is a five-act grand opera by Giuseppe Verdi, featuring a libretto by Eugène Scribe. Originally commissioned for the Paris Opéra, the work was written in French and premiered in 1855 as Les Vêpres siciliennes before being translated into its standard Italian version. The narrative...
Colton's Atlas of the World is a nineteenth-century geographical atlas issued by the New York map publisher Joseph Hutchins Colton. The 1855 edition, titled Atlas of the World, Illustrating Physical and Political Geography, brought together maps of the United States, individual states and territorie...
