'It was said to me, "e;Better have a little of the plantation manner of speech than not; 'tis not best that you seem too learned."e;'Appearing in 1855, My Bondage and My Freedom is the second autobiography written by Frederick Douglass (1818-95), a man who was born into slavery in Maryland and who went on to become the most famous antislavery author, orator, philosopher, essaysist, histori...