<P><I>Life and Times</I> was first published in 1881, revised and expanded in 1892. Although Douglass wrote two other autobiographies, <I>Narrative</I> (1845) and <I>My Bondage and My Freedom</I> (1855), he clearly deemed this comprehensive treatment of his life his most important autobiography. This edition reintroduces readers to a long-neglected essential of African-American literature. <I>Life and Times</I> revisits the events of his earlier autobiographies, demonstrating their connection to later events in his life: his political abolitionism, his connection to John Brown, the Civil War, his relationship with Abraham Lincoln, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow Era, and the Gilded Age.