My Bondage and My Freedom

By Frederick Douglass

_By a principle essential to Christianity, a PERSON is eternally differenced from a THING; so that the idea of a HUMAN BEING, necessarily excludes the idea of PROPERTY IN THAT BEING_.

COLERIDGE

Entered according to Act of Congress in 1855 by Frederick Douglass in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Northern District of New York
 TO HONORABLE GERRIT SMITH, AS A SLIGHT TOKEN OF ESTEEM FOR HIS CHARACTER, ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS AND BENEVOLENCE, AFFECTION FOR HIS PERSON, AND GRATITUDE FOR HIS FRIENDSHIP, AND AS

A Small but most Sincere Acknowledgement of
 HIS PRE-EMINENT SERVICES IN BEHALF OF THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF AN AFFLICTED, DESPISED AND DEEPLY OUTRAGED PEOPLE, BY RANKING SLAVERY WITH PIRACY AND MURDER, AND BY DENYING IT EITHER A LEGAL OR CONSTITUTIONAL EXISTENCE,

This Volume is Respectfully Dedicated,
 BY HIS FAITHFUL AND FIRMLY ATTACHED FRIEND, FREDERICK DOUGLAS.

ROCHESTER, N.Y.

CONTENTS

• EDITOR'S PREFACE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
• INTRODUCTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..4
• Life As A Slave
  • CHAPTER I       --Childhood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
  • CHAPTER II      --Removed from My First Home.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
  • CHAPTER III     --Parentage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
  • CHAPTER IV     --A General Survey of the Slave Plantation. . . . . . . 47
  • CHAPTER V      --Gradual Initiation into the Mysteries of Slavery. . . 61
  • CHAPTER VI     --Treatment of Slaves on LLoyds Plantation. . . . . . 69
  • CHAPTER VII    --Life in the Great House. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
  • CHAPTER VIII   --A Chapter of Horrors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
  • CHAPTER IX     --Personal Treatment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
  • CHAPTER X      --Life in Baltimore. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
  • CHAPTER XI     --"A Change Came O'er the Spirit of My Dream". .118
  • CHAPTER XII    --Religious Nature Awakened. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
  • CHAPTER XIII   --The Vicissitudes of Slave Life. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
  • CHAPTER XIV  --Experience in St. Michael's. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
  • CHAPTER XV   --Covey, the Negro Breaker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159
  • CHAPTER XVI  --Another Pressure of the Tyrants Vice. . . . . . . . . .172
  • CHAPTER XVII --The Last Flogging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
  • CHAPTER XVIII --New Relations and Duties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
  • CHAPTER XIX  --The Run-away Plot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
  • CHAPTER XX   --Apprenticeship Life. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
  • CHAPTER XXI  --My Escape from Slavery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
• LIFE as a FREEMAN
  • CHAPTER XXII --Liberty Attained. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
  • CHAPTER XXIII --Introduced to the Abolitionists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
  • CHAPTER XXIV --Twenty-One Months in Great Britain. . . . . . . . . 284
  • CHAPTER XXV --Various Incidents . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
• APPENDIX
  • RECEPTION SPEECH[10]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .318
  • LETTER TO HIS OLD MASTER.[11]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
  • THE NATURE OF SLAVERY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
  • INHUMANITY OF SLAVERY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .343
  • WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE FOURTH OF JULY?. . . . . . . . . 349
  • THE INTERNAL SLAVE TRADE.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
  • THE SLAVERY PARTY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
  • THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .363

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