My Bondage and My Freedom
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My Bondage and My Freedom

  1. 265 pages
  2. English
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My Bondage and My Freedom

About this book

The abolitionist author presents profound insight on the meaning of race and freedom in America in this memoir of slavery, escape, and reinvention.

One of the most important figures in the American civil rights movement, Frederick Douglass was a major influence on social and political thought in the nineteenth century. His autobiographical writings were a powerful vehicle for his philosophy of human equality.

Written ten years after his legal emancipation in 1846, My Bondage and My Freedom recounts Douglass's journey—intellectual, spiritual, and geographical—from life as a slave under various masters, and his many plots and attempts at escape, to his liberation, time as a fugitive, and new life as a prominent abolitionist. Expanding on his earlier work Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, this later memoir illuminates Douglass's maturation as a writer and thinker.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  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 XL “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. Chapter XXII. Liberty Attained
  28. Chapter XXIII. Introduced to the Abolitionists
  29. Chapter XXIV. Twenty-One Months in Great Britain
  30. Chapter XXV. Various Incidents
  31. Appendix
  32. Copyright