My Bondage And My Freedom

Freedom sought through struggle and perseverance a memoir of self-discovery and liberation as Frederick Douglass recounts his experiences from slavery to freedom recounting his journey from bondage to freedom sharing stories of survival exploitation and rebellion against oppressive systems

• My Bondage And My Freedom
• Contents
• My Bondage And My Freedom
• Introduction
• Chapter I. Childhood
• Chapter Ii. Removed From My First Home
• Chapter Iii. Parentage
• Chapter Iv. A General Survey Of The Slave Plantation
• Chapter V. Gradual Initiation To The Mysteries Of Slavery
• Chapter Vi. Treatment Of Slaves On Lloyd’s Plantation
• Chapter Vii. Life In The Great House
• Chapter Viii. A Chapter Of Horrors
• Chapter Ix. Personal Treatment
• Chapter X. Life In Baltimore
• Chapter Xi. “A Change Came O’er The Spirit Of My Dream”
• Chapter Xii. Religious Nature Awakened
• Chapter Xiii. The Vicissitudes Of Slave Life
• Chapter Xiv. Experience In St. Michael’s
• Chapter Xv. Covey, The Negro Breaker
• Chapter Xvi. Another Pressure Of The Tyrant’s Vice
• Chapter Xvii. The Last Flogging
• Chapter Xviii. New Relations And Duties
• Chapter Xix. The Run-away Plot
• Chapter Xx. Apprenticeship Life
• Chapter Xxi. My Escape From Slavery
• Life As A Freeman
• Chapter Xxiii. Introduced To The Abolitionists
• Chapter Xxiv. Twenty-one Months In Great Britain
• Chapter Xxv. Various Incidents
• Reception Speech 10. At Finsbury Chapel, Moorfields, England, May 12,
• Dr. Campbell’s Reply
• Letter To His Old Master. 11. To My Old Master, Thomas Auld
• The Nature Of Slavery. Extract From A Lecture On Slavery, At Rochester,
• Inhumanity Of Slavery. Extract From A Lecture On Slavery, At Rochester,
• What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?. Extract From An Oration, At
• The Internal Slave Trade. Extract From An Oration, At Rochester, July
• The Slavery Party. Extract From A Speech Delivered Before The A. A. S.
• The Anti-slavery Movement. Extracts From A Lecture Before Various
• Footnotes