My Bondage and My Freedom

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My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass.

Contents

• MY BONDAGE and MY FREEDOM5
• MY BONDAGE and MY FREEDOM9
• EDITOR’S PREFACE10
• INTRODUCTION13
• CHAPTER I. Childhood27
• CHAPTER II. Removed from My First Home34
• CHAPTER III. Parentage39
• CHAPTER IV. A General Survey of the Slave Plantation46
• CHAPTER V. Gradual Initiation to the Mysteries of Slavery58
• CHAPTER VI. Treatment of Slaves on Lloyd’s Plantation65
• CHAPTER VII. Life in the Great House76
• CHAPTER VIII. A Chapter of Horrors84
• CHAPTER IX. Personal Treatment90
• CHAPTER X. Life in Baltimore97
• CHAPTER XI. “A Change Came O’er the Spirit of My Dream”104
• CHAPTER XII. Religious Nature Awakened112
• CHAPTER XIII. The Vicissitudes of Slave Life119
• CHAPTER XIV. Experience in St. Michael’s127
• CHAPTER XV. Covey, the Negro Breaker140
• CHAPTER XVI. Another Pressure of the Tyrant’s Vice151
• CHAPTER XVII. The Last Flogging158
• CHAPTER XVIII. New Relations and Duties168
• CHAPTER XIX. The Run-Away Plot181
• CHAPTER XX. Apprenticeship Life202
• CHAPTER XXI. My Escape from Slavery213
• LIFE as a FREEMAN222
• CHAPTER XXII. Liberty Attained223
• CHAPTER XXIII. Introduced to the Abolitionists236
• CHAPTER XXIV. Twenty-One Months in Great Britain241
• CHAPTER XXV. Various Incidents258
• RECEPTION SPEECH 10. At Finsbury Chapel, Moorfields, England, May 12,267
• Dr. Campbell’s Reply278
• LETTER TO HIS OLD MASTER. 11. To My Old Master, Thomas Auld280
• THE NATURE OF SLAVERY. Extract from a Lecture on Slavery, at Rochester,288
• INHUMANITY OF SLAVERY. Extract from A Lecture on Slavery, at Rochester,294
• WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE FOURTH OF JULY?. Extract from an Oration, at300
• THE INTERNAL SLAVE TRADE. Extract from an Oration, at Rochester, July305
• THE SLAVERY PARTY. Extract from a Speech Delivered before the A. A. S.309
• THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT. Extracts from a Lecture before Various314
• FOOTNOTES322
• THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE326

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