My Bondage and My Freedom (Autobiography)

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"My Bondage and My Freedom"" is the second of three autobiographies written by Frederick Douglass. It is mainly an expansion of his first autobiography, «Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass», discussing in greater detail his transition from bondage to liberty.

Frederick Douglass (1818 – 1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writings.

Contents:

Childhood

Removed From My First Home

Parentage

A General Survey of the Slave Plantation

Gradual Initiation to the Mysteries of Slavery

Treatment of Slaves on Lloyd's Plantation

Life in the Great House

A Chapter of Horrors

Personal Treatment

Life in Baltimore

"A Change Came O'er the Spirit of My Dream""

Religious Nature Awakened

The Vicissitudes of Slave Life

Experience in St. Michael's

Covey, the Negro Breaker

Another Pressure of the Tyrant's Vice

The Last Flogging

New Relations and Duties

The Run-away Plot

Apprenticeship Life

My Escape From Slavery

Liberty Attained

Introduced to the Abolitionists

Twenty-One Months in Great Britain

Various Incidents

Reception Speech

Dr. Campbell's Reply

Letter to His Old Master to My Old Master, Thomas Auld

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