My Bondage and My Freedom
by Frederick Douglass
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Ex-slave Frederick Douglass's second autobiography-written after ten years of reflection following his legal emancipation in 1846 and his break with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison-catapulted Douglass into the international spotlight as the foremost spokesman for American blacks, both freed and slave. Written during his celebrated career as a speaker and newspaper editor, My Bondage and My Freedom reveals the author of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) grown more mature, forceful, analytical, and complex with a deepened commitment to the fight for equal rights and libert...
Chapters (41)
- MY BONDAGE and MY FREEDOM
- CONTENTS
- MY BONDAGE and MY FREEDOM
- EDITOR’S PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER I. Childhood
- CHAPTER II. Removed from My First Home
- CHAPTER III. Parentage
- CHAPTER IV. A General Survey of the Slave Plantation
- CHAPTER V. Gradual Initiation to the Mysteries of Slavery
- CHAPTER VI. Treatment of Slaves on Lloyd’s Plantation
- CHAPTER VII. Life in the Great House
- CHAPTER VIII. A Chapter of Horrors
- CHAPTER IX. Personal Treatment
- CHAPTER X. Life in Baltimore
- CHAPTER XI. “A Change Came O’er the Spirit of My Dream”
- CHAPTER XII. Religious Nature Awakened
- CHAPTER XIII. The Vicissitudes of Slave Life
- CHAPTER XIV. Experience in St. Michael’s
- CHAPTER XV. Covey, the Negro Breaker
- CHAPTER XVI. Another Pressure of the Tyrant’s Vice
- CHAPTER XVII. The Last Flogging
- CHAPTER XVIII. New Relations and Duties
- CHAPTER XIX. The Run-Away Plot
- CHAPTER XX. Apprenticeship Life
- CHAPTER XXI. My Escape from Slavery
- LIFE as a FREEMAN
- CHAPTER XXII. Liberty Attained
- CHAPTER XXIII. Introduced to the Abolitionists
- CHAPTER XXIV. Twenty-One Months in Great Britain
- CHAPTER XXV. Various Incidents
- RECEPTION SPEECH 10. At Finsbury Chapel, Moorfields, England, May 12,
- Dr. Campbell’s Reply
- LETTER TO HIS OLD MASTER. 11. To My Old Master, Thomas Auld
- THE NATURE OF SLAVERY. Extract from a Lecture on Slavery, at Rochester,
- INHUMANITY OF SLAVERY. Extract from A Lecture on Slavery, at Rochester,
- WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE FOURTH OF JULY?. Extract from an Oration, at
- THE INTERNAL SLAVE TRADE. Extract from an Oration, at Rochester, July
- THE SLAVERY PARTY. Extract from a Speech Delivered before the A. A. S.
- THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT. Extracts from a Lecture before Various
- FOOTNOTES
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