My Bondage and My Freedom. By Frederick Douglass. With and Introduction. By James M`Cune Smith.

APPENDIX, CONTAINING EXTRACTS FROM SPEECHES, ETC RECEPTION SPEECH At Finsbury Chapel, Moorfields, England, May 12, 1846.

LETTER TO HIS OLD MASTER. To My Old Master, Thomas Auld.

THE NATURE OF SLAVERY. Extract from a Lecture on Slavery, at Rochester, December 1, 1850.

INHUMANITY OF SLAVERY. Extract from A Lecture on Slavery, at Rochester, December 8, 1850.

WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE FOURTH OF JULY? Extract from an Oration, at Rochester, July 5, 1852.

THE INTERNAL SLAVE TRADE. Extract from an Oration, at Rochester, July 5, 1852.

THE SLAVERY PARTY. Extract from a Speech Delivered before the A. A. S. Society, in New York, May, 1853.

THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT. Extracts from a Lecture before Various Anti-Slavery Bodies, in the Winter of 1855.

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MY BONDAGE
AND
MY FREEDOM.

Part I.—Life as a Slave. Part II.—Life as a Freeman.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS.

WITH
AN INTRODUCTION.
BY DR. JAMES M'CUNE SMITH.

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

NEW YORK

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five,
BY FREDERICK DOUGLASS,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Northern District of New York.

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FREDERICK DOUGLASS.