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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
EDITORS PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
LIFE AS A SLAVE?
I--CHILDHOOD
II--REMOVED FROM MY FIRST HOME
III--PARENTAGE
IV--A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE SLAVE PLANTATION
V--GRADUAL INITIATION INTO THE MYSTERIES OF SLAVERY
VI--TREATMENT OF SLAVES ON LLOYDS PLANTATION
VII--LIFE IN THE GREAT HOUSE
VIII--A CHAPTER OF HORRORS
IX--PERSONAL TREATMENT
X--LIFE IN BALTIMORE
XI--"A CHANGE CAME O'ER THE SPIRIT OF MY DREAM"
XII--RELIGIOUS NATURE AWAKENED
XIII--THE VICISSITUDES OF SLAVE LIFE
XIV--EXPERIENCE IN ST. MICHAEL'S
XV--COVEY, THE NEGRO BREAKER
XVI--ANOTHER PRESSURE OF THE TYRANTS VICE
XVII--THE LAST FLOCCING
XVIII--NEW RELATIONS AND DUTIES
XIX--THE RUN-AWAY PLOT
XX--APPRENTICESHIP LIFE
XXI--MY ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY
LIFE AS A FREEMAN
XXII--LIBERTY ATTAINED
XXIII--INTRODUCED TO THE ABOLITIONISTS
XXIV--TWENTY-ONE MONTHS IN GREAT BRITAIN
XXV--VARIOUS INCIDENTS
APPENDIX
RECEPTION SPEECH
LETTER TO HIS OLD MASTER
THE NATURE OF SLAVERY
INHUMANITY OF SLAVERY
WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE FOURTH OF JULY?
THE INTERNAL SLAVE TRADE
THE SLAVERY PARTY
THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT
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