… he could of his unrecorded slave past. As he wrote in his Narrative (1845), “A want of information concerning my own … & Company, 1991), 24. [4] Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), reprint (Ebony Classics, Chicago: Johnson … Mr. Gough, (SOURCE) who defended Douglass against the “pro-slavery, cadaverous, lantern-jawed Americans (Blassingame, …