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My Bondage and My Freedom

Frederick Douglass

My Bondage and My Freedom

Frederick Douglass

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"My Bondage and My Freedom" by Frederick Douglass is an autobiographical slave narrative published in 1855. The second of Douglass's three autobiographies, it expands upon his first narrative, depicting in greater detail his journey from enslavement to freedom. Following his liberation, Douglass became a prominent abolitionist, orator, author, newspaper publisher, and advocate for women's rights. The book features an introduction by James McCune Smith, whom Douglass called the "foremost black influence" of his life. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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  1. 1MY BONDAGE and MY FREEDOM1,827 chars
  2. 2CONTENTS1,714 chars
  3. 3MY BONDAGE and MY FREEDOM5,233 chars
  4. 4INTRODUCTION34,761 chars
  5. 5CHAPTER I. Childhood14,969 chars
  6. 6CHAPTER II. Removed from My First Home10,986 chars
  7. 7CHAPTER III. Parentage15,636 chars
  8. 8CHAPTER IV. A General Survey of the Slave Plantation28,509 chars
  9. 9CHAPTER V. Gradual Initiation to the Mysteries of Slavery15,253 chars
  10. 10CHAPTER VI. Treatment of Slaves on Lloyd’s Plantation27,899 chars
  11. 11CHAPTER VII. Life in the Great House19,128 chars
  12. 12CHAPTER VIII. A Chapter of Horrors14,734 chars
  13. 13CHAPTER IX. Personal Treatment17,635 chars
  14. 14CHAPTER X. Life in Baltimore15,575 chars
  15. 15CHAPTER XI. “A Change Came O’er the Spirit of My Dream”18,014 chars
  16. 16CHAPTER XII. Religious Nature Awakened15,608 chars
  17. 17CHAPTER XIII. The Vicissitudes of Slave Life18,170 chars
  18. 18CHAPTER XIV. Experience in St. Michael’s30,802 chars
  19. 19CHAPTER XV. Covey, the Negro Breaker27,782 chars
  20. 20CHAPTER XVI. Another Pressure of the Tyrant’s Vice16,208 chars
  21. 21CHAPTER XVII. The Last Flogging25,316 chars
  22. 22CHAPTER XVIII. New Relations and Duties31,560 chars
  23. 23CHAPTER XIX. The Run-Away Plot51,978 chars
  24. 24CHAPTER XX. Apprenticeship Life26,855 chars
  25. 25CHAPTER XXI. My Escape from Slavery21,765 chars
  26. 26LIFE as a FREEMAN33,174 chars
  27. 27CHAPTER XXIII. Introduced to the Abolitionists11,736 chars
  28. 28CHAPTER XXIV. Twenty-One Months in Great Britain42,707 chars
  29. 29CHAPTER XXV. Various Incidents22,538 chars
  30. 30RECEPTION SPEECH 10. At Finsbury Chapel, Moorfields, England, May 12,29,684 chars
  31. 31Dr. Campbell’s Reply4,747 chars
  32. 32LETTER TO HIS OLD MASTER. 11. To My Old Master, Thomas Auld18,608 chars
  33. 33THE NATURE OF SLAVERY. Extract from a Lecture on Slavery, at Rochester,13,836 chars
  34. 34INHUMANITY OF SLAVERY. Extract from A Lecture on Slavery, at Rochester,14,155 chars
  35. 35WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE FOURTH OF JULY?. Extract from an Oration, at11,007 chars
  36. 36THE INTERNAL SLAVE TRADE. Extract from an Oration, at Rochester, July9,759 chars
  37. 37THE SLAVERY PARTY. Extract from a Speech Delivered before the A. A. S.12,961 chars
  38. 38THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT. Extracts from a Lecture before Various20,030 chars
  39. 39FOOTNOTES5,140 chars