Just remembered I found a first edition of Frederick Douglass's My Life and Times in a junk shop 20 years ago. He's getting recognized more and more...

By curiousreads5100

Seeing Frederick Douglass pop up in the news lately made me remember I apparently own a first edition of his third autobiography, *My Life and Times* (1881). I picked it up randomly at a junk shop in Marseilles, Illinois—like, on my first date with my wife. No clue how it ended up there, mixed in with old car parts and stacks of *National Geographic*. I pulled it out just to look at it, and it’s really neat. I’m actually thinking of selling it now to donate the money to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Figured it’d be better than just sitting in a box in the garage, especially with everything going on right now.