After ten years of contemplation following his formal liberation in 1846 and his separation with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison, ex-slave Frederick Douglass's second autobiography thrust him into the international limelight as the leading advocate for American blacks, both free and slave. My Bondage and My Freedom was written during Frederick Douglass' illustrious career as a speaker and newspaper editor, and it depicts a more mature, assertive, analytical, and complicated Frederick Douglass, with a stronger devotion to the battle for equal rights and liberties.
The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the law of the land. What is to be thought of a nation boasting of its liberty, boasting of it's humanity, boasting of its Christianity, boasting of its love of justice and purity, and yet having within its own borders three millions of persons denied by law the right of marriage?
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