By Frederick Douglass

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By a principle essential to Christianity, a PERSON is eternally differenced from a THING; so that the idea of a HUMAN BEING, necessarily excludes the idea of PROPERTY IN THAT BEING. —COLERIDGE

Entered according to Act of Congress in 1855 by Frederick Douglass in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Northern District of New York

TO
HONORABLE GERRIT SMITH,
AS A SLIGHT TOKEN OF
ESTEEM FOR HIS CHARACTER,
ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS AND BENEVOLENCE,
AFFECTION FOR HIS PERSON, AND
GRATITUDE FOR HIS FRIENDSHIP,
AND AS
A Small but most Sincere Acknowledgement of
HIS PRE-EMINENT SERVICES IN BEHALF OF THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES
OF AN
AFFLICTED, DESPISED AND DEEPLY OUTRAGED PEOPLE,
BY RANKING SLAVERY WITH PIRACY AND MURDER,
AND BY
DENYING IT EITHER A LEGAL OR CONSTITUTIONAL EXISTENCE,
This Volume is Respectfully Dedicated,
BY HIS FAITHFUL AND FIRMLY ATTACHED FRIEND,

FREDERICK DOUGLAS.
ROCHESTER, N.Y.


CONTENTS

MY BONDAGE and MY FREEDOM

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

LIFE as a FREEMAN

CHAPTER XXII. Liberty Attained

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


MY BONDAGE and MY FREEDOM

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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