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

  
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EDITOR'S PREFACE
  
INTRODUCTION

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LIFE AS A SLAVE.
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CHAPTER I. THE AUTHOR'S CHILDHOOD.
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CHAPTER II. THE AUTHOR REMOVED FROM HIS FIRST HOME.
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CHAPTER III. THE AUTHOR'S PARENTAGE.
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CHAPTER IV. A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE SLAVE PLANTATION.
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CHAPTER V. GRADUAL INITIATION INTO THE MYSTERIES OF SLAVERY.
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CHAPTER VI. TREATMENT OF SLAVES ON LLOYD'S PLANTATION.
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CHAPTER VII. LIFE IN THE GREAT HOUSE.
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CHAPTER VIII. A CHAPTER OF HORRORS.
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CHAPTER IX. PERSONAL TREATMENT OF THE AUTHOR.
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CHAPTER X. LIFE IN BALTIMORE.
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CHAPTER XI. "A CHANGE CAME O'ER THE SPIRIT OF MY DREAM."
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CHAPTER XII. RELIGIOUS NATURE AWAKENED.
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CHAPTER XIII. THE VICISSITUDES OF SLAVE LIFE.
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CHAPTER XIV. EXPERIENCE IN ST. MICHAEL'S
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CHAPTER XV. COVEY, THE NEGRO BREAKER.
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CHAPTER XVI. ANOTHER PRESSURE OF THE TYRANT'S VICE.
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CHAPTER XVII. THE LAST FLOGGING.
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CHAPTER XVIII. NEW RELATIONS AND DUTIES.
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CHAPTER XIX. THE RUN-AWAY PLOT.
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CHAPTER XX. APPRENTICESHIP LIFE.
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CHAPTER XXI. MY ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY.
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LIFE AS A FREEMAN.
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CHAPTER XXII. LIBERTY ATTAINED.
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CHAPTER XXIII. INTRODUCTION TO THE ABOLITIONISTS.
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CHAPTER XXIV. TWENTY-ONE MONTHS IN GREAT BRITAIN.
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CHAPTER XXV. VARIOUS INCIDENTS.

  
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.

BY

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
AND AUBURN:
MILLER, ORTON & MULLIGAN.
New York: 25 Park Row.—Auburn: 107 Genese-st.
1855

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.

AUBURN:
MILLER, ORTON & MULLIGAN, STEREOTYPES AND PRINTERS.
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