My Bondage and My Freedom

About this eBook

Author

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Credits

Mike Lough and David Widger

Language

English

LoC Class

E300: History: America: Revolution to the Civil War (1783-1861)

Subject

Plantation life -- Maryland -- History -- 19th century

Category

Text

eBook-No.

202

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/202

Release Date

July 2, 2008

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.MY BONDAGE and MY FREEDOM — By Frederick Douglass
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.MY BONDAGE and MY FREEDOM
4. 4.EDITOR’S PREFACE
5. 5.INTRODUCTION
6. 6.CHAPTER I. Childhood
7. 7.CHAPTER II. Removed from My First Home
8. 8.CHAPTER III. Parentage
9. 9.CHAPTER IV. A General Survey of the Slave Plantation
10. 10.CHAPTER V. Gradual Initiation to the Mysteries of Slavery
11. 11.CHAPTER VI. Treatment of Slaves on Lloyd’s Plantation
12. 12.CHAPTER VII. Life in the Great House
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. A Chapter of Horrors
14. 14.CHAPTER IX. Personal Treatment
15. 15.CHAPTER X. Life in Baltimore
16. 16.CHAPTER XI. “A Change Came O’er the Spirit of My Dream”
17. 17.CHAPTER XII. Religious Nature Awakened
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII. The Vicissitudes of Slave Life
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV. Experience in St. Michael’s
20. 20.CHAPTER XV. Covey, the Negro Breaker
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI. Another Pressure of the Tyrant’s Vice
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII. The Last Flogging
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII. New Relations and Duties
24. 24.CHAPTER XIX. The Run-Away Plot
25. 25.CHAPTER XX. Apprenticeship Life
26. 26.CHAPTER XXI. My Escape from Slavery
27. 27.LIFE as a FREEMAN
28. 28.CHAPTER XXII. Liberty Attained
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIII. Introduced to the Abolitionists
30. 30.CHAPTER XXIV. Twenty-One Months in Great Britain
31. 31.CHAPTER XXV. Various Incidents
32. 32.RECEPTION SPEECH 10 . At Finsbury Chapel, Moorfields, England, May 12,
33. 33.Dr. Campbell’s Reply
34. 34.LETTER TO HIS OLD MASTER. 11 . To My Old Master, Thomas Auld
35. 35.THE NATURE OF SLAVERY. Extract from a Lecture on Slavery, at Rochester,
36. 36.INHUMANITY OF SLAVERY. Extract from A Lecture on Slavery, at Rochester,
37. 37.WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE FOURTH OF JULY?. Extract from an Oration, at
38. 38.THE INTERNAL SLAVE TRADE. Extract from an Oration, at Rochester, July
39. 39.THE SLAVERY PARTY. Extract from a Speech Delivered before the A. A. S.
40. 40.THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT. Extracts from a Lecture before Various
41. 41.FOOTNOTES

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