My Bondage and My Freedom

by Frederick Douglass

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Contents

1. Editor’s Preface
2. Introduction
3. Chapter I. Childhood
4. Chapter II. Removed from My First Home
5. Chapter III. Parentage
6. Chapter IV. A General Survey of the Slave Plantation
7. Chapter V. Gradual Initiation to the Mysteries of Slavery
8. Chapter VI. Treatment of Slaves on Lloyd’s Plantation
9. Chapter VII. Life in the Great House
10. Chapter VIII. A Chapter of Horrors
11. Chapter IX. Personal Treatment
12. Chapter X. Life in Baltimore
13. Chapter XI. “A Change Came O’er the Spirit of My Dream”
14. Chapter XII. Religious Nature Awakened
15. Chapter XIII. The Vicissitudes of Slave Life
16. Chapter XIV. Experience in St. Michael’s
17. Chapter XV. Covey, the Negro Breaker
18. Chapter XVI. Another Pressure of the Tyrant’s Vice
19. Chapter XVII. The Last Flogging
20. Chapter XVIII. New Relations and Duties
21. Chapter XIX. The Run-Away Plot
22. Chapter XX. Apprenticeship Life
23. Chapter XXI. My Escape from Slavery
24. Chapter XXII. Liberty Attained
25. Chapter XXIII. Introduced to the Abolitionists
26. Chapter XXIV. Twenty-One Months in Great Britain
27. Chapter XXV. Various Incidents
28. Reception Speech . At Finsbury Chapel, Moorfields, England, May 12,
29. Dr. Campbell’s Reply
30. Letter to His Old Master. . To My Old Master, Thomas Auld
31. The Nature of Slavery. Extract from a Lecture on Slavery, at Rochester,
32. Inhumanity of Slavery. Extract from A Lecture on Slavery, at Rochester,
33. What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?. Extract from an Oration, at
34. The Internal Slave Trade. Extract from an Oration, at Rochester, July
35. The Slavery Party. Extract from a Speech Delivered before the A. A. S.
36. The Anti-Slavery Movement. Extracts from a Lecture before Various

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