Nonfiction · 1855
My Bondage and My Freedom
My Bondage and My Freedom, first published in 1855, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Dedication
- Editor’s Preface
- 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
- Chapter XXII — Life as a Freeman: Liberty Attained
- Chapter XXIII — Introduced to the Abolitionists
- Chapter XXIV — Twenty-One Months in Great Britain
- Chapter XXV — Various Incidents
- Dr. Campbell’s Reply
- THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT. Extracts from a Lecture before Various
- Footnotes
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Subjects
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
- African American abolitionists — Biography
- Abolitionists — United States — Biography
- Enslaved persons — Maryland — Social conditions — 19th century
- Antislavery movements — United States — History — 19th century
- Fugitive slaves — Maryland — Biography
- Plantation life — Maryland — History — 19th century
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About the author
1818–1895 · Victorian
Frederick Douglass (c. 1818–1895) was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, taught himself to read, and escaped to the North in 1838. His Narrative (1845) made him the best-known Black abolitionist speaker and writer in America and Britain; he founded and edited the newspaper The North Star in Rochester, New York, advised Lincoln during the Civil War, and later held federal office, including as minister to Haiti. He wrote two further autobiographies, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) and Life and Times (1881).
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