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My Bondage and My Freedom — Frederick Douglass

My Bondage and My Freedom

Frederick Douglass

  • History
  • Book language: English
  • 327 pages

My Bondage and My Freedom is Frederick Douglass's 1855 autobiography, a history and memoir of his life under slavery and his path to freedom. It reflects on bondage, identity, and the abolitionist struggle, offering a firsthand account of American slavery. Douglass's clear, powerful prose makes it valuable for listeners interested in history and justice.

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Contents

  1. MY BONDAGE and MY FREEDOM
  2. CONTENTS
  3. MY BONDAGE and MY FREEDOM
  4. EDITOR’S PREFACE
  5. INTRODUCTION
  6. CHAPTER I. Childhood
  7. CHAPTER II. Removed from My First Home
  8. CHAPTER III. Parentage
  9. CHAPTER IV. A General Survey of the Slave Plantation
  10. CHAPTER V. Gradual Initiation to the Mysteries of Slavery
  11. CHAPTER VI. Treatment of Slaves on Lloyd’s Plantation
  12. CHAPTER VII. Life in the Great House
  13. CHAPTER VIII. A Chapter of Horrors
  14. CHAPTER IX. Personal Treatment
  15. CHAPTER X. Life in Baltimore
  16. CHAPTER XI. “A Change Came O’er the Spirit of My Dream”
  17. CHAPTER XII. Religious Nature Awakened
  18. CHAPTER XIII. The Vicissitudes of Slave Life
  19. CHAPTER XIV. Experience in St. Michael’s
  20. CHAPTER XV. Covey, the Negro Breaker
  21. CHAPTER XVI. Another Pressure of the Tyrant’s Vice
  22. CHAPTER XVII. The Last Flogging
  23. CHAPTER XVIII. New Relations and Duties
  24. CHAPTER XIX. The Run-Away Plot
  25. CHAPTER XX. Apprenticeship Life
  26. CHAPTER XXI. My Escape from Slavery
  27. LIFE as a FREEMAN
  28. CHAPTER XXII. Liberty Attained
  29. CHAPTER XXIII. Introduced to the Abolitionists
  30. CHAPTER XXIV. Twenty-One Months in Great Britain

and 12 more chapters

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