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My Bondage My Freedom
A Lehman College Transformative Text
Frederick Douglass
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Table of Contents
Cover
Frontispiece
Title Page
Copyright
Note on the Text
My Bondage, and My Freedom
Dedication
Preface
Introduction
Part I. Life as a Slave
Chapter I: The Author’s Childhood
Chapter II: The Author Removed from his First Home
Chapter III: The Author’s Parentage
Chapter IV: A General Survey of the Slave Plantation
Chapter V: Gradual Inituation into 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 of the Author
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 Replations and Duties
Chapter XIX: The Runaway Plot
Chapter XX: Apprenticeship LIfe
Chapter XXI: My Escape from Freedom
Part II. Life as a Freeman
Chapter XXII: Liberty Obtained
Chapter XXIII: Introduced to the Abolitionists
:Chapter XXIV: Twenty-one Months in Great Britain
Chapter XXV: Various Incidents.
Appendix: Extracts from Speeches, Etc.
Reception Speech at Finsbury Chapel, Moorfields, England
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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